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Originally Posted by tecweston
I've found that, even with wi-fi off, that "two months" life they give for the battery is being extremely generous. I leave my wi-fi off most of the time unless I'm shopping for new stuff, and I need to charge it about once a week.
But I tend to read three or four books simultaneously, so I think that constantly switching between books might be draining the battery like that. The "two months" estimate is probably with wi-fi off, with text as small as possible (to minimize page turns), and reading one single book during those two months.
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The 2 month battery life is based on the assumption of 30 minutes read per day and only so many page turns during that time (I don't remember how many, maybe 100?). In other words, it's a completely fabricated value that has no bearing on reality. For example, this is why Amazon was able to "increase" the battery life of the Kindle from 1 month to 2 months when the Nook STR shipped -- Amazon changed their calculation to assume the same 30 minutes of reading that B&N used, instead of their previous 60 minutes of reading per day value.