@spyrule, Your first post in this thread mentioned cellular radio possibly on a rooted Nook as opposed to the other two guys talking about WiFi on a non-rooted Nook. Two VERY different things. If your Nook isn't rooted the battery life is probably going to be good. If you rooted it, then there is a chance the battery life will be much shorter. The nookcolor I owned had good battery life when not rooted and like a lot of others it had terrible batery life when rooted, so the Nook Touch might act this way as well. I suspect it will as Android was obviously designed for smartphones and the patched up 2.x they put on tablets and readers is not that good on same. Some of the so-called rooting experts continue to state the nookcolor shouldn't drain battery for a non-existent cellular radio, and yet it darn sure appears to. What ever the reason, a rooted nook often leads to excessive battery drain according to posts all over the web.