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Originally Posted by Crusader
So you would only count the times the eInk device is actually refreshing the pages as actual use (excluding the time it's being read)?
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I would count the time spent actually reading the book.
Seems like the obvious thing to count.
Does anyone seriously think that comparing one figure which is measured in days (but you can only use the device for half an hour a day) with another measured in hours (of constant use) is meaningful?
Lets say a new tablet is released with 10x the battery life of current ones.
So it lasts for 100 hours of continuous use.
With the current advertising of eInk devices, they would claim a month of use for the eInk device vs 4 days for the tablet. Whereas in reality you could read for far longer on the tablet than the eInk device.
It is simply misleading. The only purpose is advertising copy. eInk device battery lives used to be measured in page turns, until Amazon and B&N got into an advertising war about battery life.