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Originally Posted by klaymen
but I fear this would break the batteries earlier. As far as I know about LiIon batteries, each charging cycle counts, no matter whether it's a complete or a partial one, and after a certain number of cycles, the batteries slowly die. .
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Don't worry. the number of cycles is somewere between 300 and 1000. Lets be conservative and say 500. But than the battery is not dead, it is at 50%. So if a battery charge lasts for 4 day's, the total number of days you can use the battery is 2000. That is over 5 years, and then it still keeps the Cybook alive for about 2 days. And there is an other thing about these type of batteries...They slowly die anyway. Even if you store them in a closet. Almost none of them surives 4 years. So the best thing you can do is use them. Age will kill them faster than use
The story is different for a laptop. There you exhaust your battery in a couple of hours and in an extremely 'unfriendly' way with high currents. You can cycle 3 times in a day. Here use is worse than age