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Originally Posted by elcreative
Of course batteries don't discharge at all when not actually reading  |
I don't know about the reader that you are using, but most devices don't lose a lot of battery power when they aren't in use.
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Originally Posted by elcreative
Where JSWolf says 156 hours battery life, it doesn't say 156 hours of reading time, it says 156 hours battery life - not the same thing, your math is trying to work different things into one conclusion...  |
I'm guessing that you haven't read the article in the OP:
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With up to two months on a single charge, the All-New NOOK has the longest-battery life in the industry and superior battery performance to Kindle 3. In our side-by-side tests, under the exact same conditions, continuous use of the device resulted in more than two times Kindle's battery life. While reading at one page a minute, the All-New NOOK battery lasts for 150 hours where the Kindle battery, using the same page-turn rate, lasts for only 56 hours (both with Wi-Fi off). We've also done a continuous page turn test and at one page turn per second, the All-New NOOK offers more than 25,000 continuous page turns on a single charge.
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In case you missed it, one page a minute is supposed to be the approximation that they made for the average reading speed, so that makes the value reading time.
What I was calculating was how B&N got from 156 hours (and yes, I see that they are in fact 150) to 2 months. Last year when I was looking for a reader, all the manufacturers said the number of page turns, and the advertisements were mentioning how you get to read for a month without charging the battery (if you don't use wifi, etc.) and the general opinion on the forum seemed to be that only the people who don't read much would get that.
And JSWolf is right, if a person were to read continuously, the battery wouldn't last a week, but that would assume that such a person doesn't sleep or eat. But people in general sleep, eat, work, have a social life, and that puts a limit on the amount of time that they spend reading.