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Originally Posted by Barcey
I did some tests when I first got mine and had similar results. I did get the battery to last 14 days but I was only reading about 50 pages a day at the time. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...734#post119734
The claim of "8,000 page turns" is very exaggerated and doesn't come close to real world use. All of the e-ink vendors seem to quote the same number though so it appears to come from the manufacturer. I personally think it's a useless specification and should not be used to compare the various readers until they start producing real life tests of their own specific products.
I'm actually very happy with the battery life but wish they wouldn't inflate the specifications. It just leads to consumer disappointment. |
I think people forget that each time one turns the Cybook on or off, that's a page-flip as far as the screen's energy draw is concerned. As is returning to the Library, changing font size or family, paging through the Library - and the worst offender is having the Cybook 'flash' every time one goes to a new page! So if one reads a 1,000 'page' ebook, one is - if one doesn't change font information, turn the Cybook on or off or change ebooks - doing 2,000 page redraws! Oops! That's nearly 1/4 the battery charge right there!
I've gotten in the habit of not turning it on and off, not doing a 'flash' on every page turn and not changing between fonts and sizes until I'm done with a story. I routinely get a week-to-week-and-a-half per charge.
Derek