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Originally Posted by zedmin
Thanks for the very informative response jshzh.
What is the battery life like on your unit?
How do you find the screen compares to the kindle screen (is it e-ink)?
thanks - zedmin
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Maybe one week 3 hours a day? Never did a real test. I don't know exactly how many page turns I can do per charge. I read one page back and forth often if the pages contain footnotes and I also use dictionaries. Other PB users reported they had longer battery life. As I understand, no device will reach what the manufacturers claim.
I compared my pocketbook with a friend's kindle 3 for a few minutes. I didn't see much difference but the friend's kindle was displaying a different book. It was a pdf or djvu book on my device. You can go to youtube to see the comparison of the screens of PB, Kindle and Sony. I don't know why in the video the difference is more obvious than what I saw in person. The light condition, camera angle, and the computer screen may all be factors.
Don't get me wrong. It would be certainly a better deal if pocketbook had a pearl screen. I valued the ergomonics, functions, and versatility over the screen when I bought it as the screen result depends on software, fonts and document formats too. You can want for another few months.
I buy paper books from Amazon occasionally. They have good price. But with no apparent advantage in the functions/ergomonics/versatility I need, I'd rather go something alternative. I tend to avoid any hype such as facebook, apple devices, kindle, etc. if possible. Kind of funny if something becomes more than what it is.