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Old 11-30-2012, 06:59 AM   #10
echwel
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Forma (sold), Kobo Aura One, Kobo Glo, Kobo Touch
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Originally Posted by chuckie30 View Post
However I have had the new one for almost two weeks. I charged it the day it arrived and had to charge it again 5 days later and its now only showing half battery(its 4 days since the last charge). I never leave it to go to sleep, always slide the switch over to put it to sleep. Wifi is off.
I read an hour or two per day during the week and probably more than double that on the weekends.
Seeing that some Kobo touch owners get a month, maybe they should give reading time for the battery life? What am I doing differently to them?
Reading time which is given in marketing statements is, to my opinion, 30 days at half an hour a day, so approximately 15 hours. My experience tells me it's more than 15 hours, but from what I have heard it depends on multiple variables: Wifi, how many times is the device switched on/off, how long has it been in sleeping mode...

Also, my device is very fast decreasing it's battery-life from 100% to approximately 75%, but after that it's decreasing more or less slow to 10%, after which I get the 'you can't read anymore, charge your device'-message very fast. Anyhow, it gives me about 30 to 40 hours of reading on a charge, I think. I put it to sleep, if I'm planning to read again that day, but if I'm planning to not read again till the next day, I put it off.
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