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Old 07-13-2008, 02:49 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The "8000 page turns" is pure marketing hype. It would achieve it if you started with a fully-charged battery, then turned the page as fast as it would go until the battery was flat. In reality, your machine is sitting there "idle" most of the time as you read what's on the page, and that "idle time" is still using power for the CPU and memory. That's what drains the extra battery power.
Oh no, Harry. Surely Bookeen didn't lie to us just to sell the Cybook.

Anyway, I still like mine regardless of the number of page flips.
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