[InspectorGadget]

That's what I got when my 500 was new. Now, I'm lucky if it lasts for two weeks, no card, sitting in my backpack (NO pageturns). And when it gets down to one bar, it's pretty much the same as no bars because it'll die suddenly.

I blew my extended warranty in a Refurb replacement for a 2-week battery, and you know what I got? A crappy refurb with a 2-week battery. Then, just outside the refurb warranty period (3 mo), the screen started blowing rows and columns down in one corner.

I got screwed. No more extended warranty (limited to 1 replacement), no more refurb warranty. Read the fine print. It amounts to institutionalized fraud.

Charge it every week and be happy.

- The Inspector


P.S.: Zen, was Anathem good? I love Stephenson.