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Originally Posted by m-reader
I charge the battery up in the evenining, turn the iLiad on in the morning,
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By the evening the battery is down on its last legs ...
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Yup. That's about right. That's what I get on my iLiad now.
eInk only solves the problem with the screen eating up the battery. In a normal LCD device (like a Palm), most of the power usage is the backlight. Next is keeping the screen up to date. If you turned off the "auto power off" of a Palm TX and left it on, the battery would probably be dead in about 3 hours or less.
So getting 16+ hours out of the iLiad is actually very good.
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Originally Posted by m-reader
Is it possible to upgrade the battery, add a battery pack to it or something?
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Nope. 11 is what I got before the battery replacement recall that they had. 16+ is what I get now. I don't think that the iLiad is going to get better than that (at least the version 1 iLiad - maybe newer models will do better).
If you want an ebook reader to run for days without a charge, the Cybook Gen3 does a much better job at power management.