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Originally Posted by robko
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In terms of the rapid drop after 40%, the meter has been known to be a little flaky at times with older firmware version (somewhat better currently)
In fairness to Kobo, if you look at the fine print on any of their advertising (and most of the other companies too for that matter) they say they base their "month of reading" on 30 minutes per day with no wifi use, so that's not just something that customer service is making up. IIRC about the time the 1st Kobo's came out they were all claiming 2 weeks (based on 1 hr/day) then Barnes and Noble (I think) went to 1/2 hr/day so they could claim longer battery life and everyone else also went to 1/2 hr/day after that. Light really doesn't effect battery much, so most of them now include light usage in their numbers). And in reality 1/2 hour doesn't mean much because it's actually the number of page turns/refreshes in that time that are going to determine battery drain more than the actual length of time.
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I have the current firmware, so the battery meter shouldn't be too off, I would hope.
If we just take their numbers for page turns and ignore time (since time is less relevant) , that's still ~900 page turns, light on or off.
I don't make it close to that.
My nook simple touch ... it seems like I have only recharged that a few times ever. But every time I just look at my glo the battery reading goes down a few percent !
I want to love it, but it's crashed more than a few times, and the battery life really doesn't seem to be what it should be. I'm disappointed.