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Originally Posted by TCFAN
I've been looking at color e-book readers for the past few weeks now, and the one thing I've noticed is that they all seem to have very low battery life. I just assumed many of these devices would get 6-10 hours of battery life when only reading e-books--don't laugh!  --but they all seem to be much lower, more around the 2-3 hour mark from what I can tell.
Is there a color e-reader on the market priced under a $100 that won't need a recharging after two hours of reading? I don't care about wifi, and I could care less about running apps and such. I just want to use it for reading the e-books I already own. Is this possible, or should I be looking at the black and white models like the Kobo? I really like the 7" color screens out there now, but if they're going to need a recharge so frequently I might have to reconsider the b&w models.
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Perhaps you bought some of those no-name Chinese LCD tablets? 2-3 hours on a charge reading only (with wireless connections turned off) that seems so low it is impossible to believe. The worst of the bunch should still get 3 hours streaming Flash video over WiFi at the highest screen brightness setting. So you should easily get 6-8 hours just reading.
Sure you can find readers below $100. Slow with lousy screens and no service, of course. But they exist.