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Originally Posted by guitarizt
re 1) Rooting things is fun and awesome and makes the nook so much better to me.
re 2) Paperwhite gets about 2 months at 30 min a day and general consensus on forums seems to be about 28 real world hours. It's confusing when companies say 1 month or 2 month battery life since that's reading only 30 min a day. My T1 is rated at 1 month battery life, but when I'm reading a lot that can mean 3 days. It's all about the number of page turns and time spent reading. This is why I go for readers rated at 2 months because usually that means about 28 hours like what the PW and Aura get. 14 hours is way too little for me. I'm a stickler for battery life because I hate having to worry so much about it. I don't want to settle for 14 hrs with the Nook Glowlight when I can easily get 28 hrs from the PW or Aura.
re 3) I like tactile things. I miss physical keyboards on phones.
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I still don't see the appeal for rooting your device. I have my Kindle for READING, and it does that best when only the words of the book are on the screen. What more do you need? (Although there is a jailbreak for the Kindle, and I might actually put it on -- purely so the screensaver is the cover of my current book.)
I get the battery, I guess -- although I charge whenever my Kindle Touch is at about 30% and I'm not reading, so I personally don't notice any downtime on my Kindle at all.
I don't understand why a physical directional button is better -- although I agree keyboards on phones are inferior to PC keyboards, that is because they are (slightly) harder to use! The touch screen on the PW has MORE space to hit forward with.