Thread: Battery life of Cybook Gen3
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Old 04-12-2008, 01:13 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by ricdiogo View Post
I read mobipocket-formatted ebooks, about 1 to 2 hours a day, with the flashing refresh turned off and the auto power off set to 30 minutes. It lasts 2 weeks.

Yeah. Flashing upon page change is pleasant, but it does do two complete page re-draws - both of which draw on the battery - where disabling the 'flash' only does one per page change. Gotta use every trick possible to keep the battery life up!

Derek
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