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Jon - may I ask you a question? Have you ever actually SEEN or USED a Gen3? Some of the comments you're coming out with about them are, frankly, ill-informed, disingenuous, and plain WRONG!
The Gen3 can be used in one of two modes:
1. You can shut it down completely at the end of a reading session. If you do this, it takes about 20s to restart, but you don't lose any battery power in between sessions. This is the way that I use it.
2. You can set it so it doesn't auto-shutdown, and just leave it on. In this mode, it's available for instant use, and requires a recharge about every 4-5 days.
Many people in the CyBook forum choose to use it in this 2nd mode; it's no particular burden to have to recharge every 4-5 days - this is better battery life than you'll get from an iLiad, and roughly on a par with what the Kindle will do too, I understand. In this "non shutdown" mode, library books with time-expiring DRM will work just fine.
Perhaps that answers the original question a little better than your ill-informed comment does.
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