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Blossom · 10-25-2011, 02:29 PM

I don't know about the Kindle Touch but on my phone I am notorious for flipping pages accidentally. It has a Capacitive screen so this was also a concern for me and why I decided to stay with just a regular K4. I find the battery life on the K4 to be much better then the battery life on my K3. I can leave WiFi on my K4 and it doesn't drain it at all.

I've read heavily on my K4 I expect to receive the charge message here shortly at the end of the week if I keep going. If I read like that on my K3 with WiFi off I would have needed to charge it a week ago.

I get about 3 weeks of battery on my K3 with my normal reading habits which about two Harlequin paperbacks a week and two weeks when I on a reading kick like now.

Since I had my K4 and I've read about 3 to 5 hours a day on it (that's 6 books) Four Harlequin books and two regular size romance novels and I have left WiFi on and I expect it to need a charge by the end of the week or sooner if I read more books.

So I say the battery life really isn't a issue with the K4. Now I can't compare it to the Touch but it's better then my K3 which has been sitting on its shelf doing nothing.

10-25-2011, 02:29 PM	#7
Blossom Treasure Seeker Posts: 18,708 Karma: 26026435 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Kobo HD Glo, Kindles, Kindle Fires, Andriod Devices	I don't know about the Kindle Touch but on my phone I am notorious for flipping pages accidentally. It has a Capacitive screen so this was also a concern for me and why I decided to stay with just a regular K4. I find the battery life on the K4 to be much better then the battery life on my K3. I can leave WiFi on my K4 and it doesn't drain it at all. I've read heavily on my K4 I expect to receive the charge message here shortly at the end of the week if I keep going. If I read like that on my K3 with WiFi off I would have needed to charge it a week ago. I get about 3 weeks of battery on my K3 with my normal reading habits which about two Harlequin paperbacks a week and two weeks when I on a reading kick like now. Since I had my K4 and I've read about 3 to 5 hours a day on it (that's 6 books) Four Harlequin books and two regular size romance novels and I have left WiFi on and I expect it to need a charge by the end of the week or sooner if I read more books. So I say the battery life really isn't a issue with the K4. Now I can't compare it to the Touch but it's better then my K3 which has been sitting on its shelf doing nothing.