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Originally Posted by RAH
Well, all I can tell you is that my Touch has rapidly drained (about 1% per hour) since the day I bought it. If I let it go way down and then recharge to 100%, the normal way, it is completely drained in about 4 days. It doesn't vary. It has always been like that. I agree that it is faulty, but it hasn't become a "totally dead device" in a short time or anything. It works fine if I use what you call obsessive techniques, giving me about 1 months worth of reading. I have had it now for about 8 months.
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"Totally dead" as in the battery is dead (not that the device has failed). It sounds like you have a bad unit since the battery drains in 4 days. I've been through 2 Nook classics (1 died), 2 Nook simple touches (first one was flaky), and now I'm on a Nook glow. I couldn't drain the battery on any of those in 4 days if I tried...the original Nook I could drain quickly doing a lot of 3G browsing, but that was about it.
You definitely have a defective device. It's not how the device should work, seriously. The weird charging techniques and messing around with it is a workaround to the core problem - a flaky unit. I know how it is - I put up with my flaky ST for like 6 months - touch screen would stop working, page turn buttons would stick, etc...would reboot it...it would work again for a day or two before getting wonky again - but it was a relief to return it and get a nice, solid, working unit.
You should be able to just use it, and plug it in every month or so, without any workarounds or topoffs or reboots. This is the behavior for most people by all accounts. If yours is behaving differently it's a bad unit for sure.
Some of these folks though are worrying about a 3-4% drop in a night and going all crazy with the weird charging techniques though for no reason. And frequently keeping a li-on battery at maximum charge is bad for long-term battery life - so they're also likely causing the battery to wear out a little faster:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/...i-ion-battery/