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Originally Posted by Darqref
After moping around last night, here's my new feature request:
I need to charge the battery faster. My current Gen3 ran out of juice in the middle of the book, and it took all evening for the battery to recharge. I'd like one of two sorta solutions:
1. Make the battery more easily replaced AND make an "off-line" charger for extra batteries
OR
2. Make a "Fast" charger that will recharge the battery in one hour or less. This would probably require a recharge method other than USB, but I don't know how difficult it would be to have parallel charging mechanisms.
hmm. I suppose one and two could be combined by allowing the fast recharger to ONLY work on the battery when disconnected from the reader.
3. Another solution might work if the form factor was changed to have a thicker body, like the ebookwise. Then you could use AA batteries or even dual batteries. If the device could use either the embedded lithium battery or a replaceable AA battery, then one could keep reading as long as the box of AA batteries from Costco lasted.
4. Change the charging method to allow reading and operation while the device recharges. Gen3 currently locks out any operation while the USB cable is connected to either computer or charger.
One way or another, I want to resume reading faster than currently available with my Gen3. With my older Rocket (precursor to the ebookwise) I could at least keep reading when it was on the charging cradle!
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Dear Dargref:
I cannot speak about Generation 3, but the EZ Reader is a breeze. There is only one screw to remove to get at the battery; and the package even comes WITH the screw driver! Charge time is about three hours. The thing I tell people is the battery is so small and light that you can buy a second battery and keep it as a power extender. You CAN use the EZ Reader while it is being charged! You get 8,000 pages of text to a single charge!
There are such things as Chargers that promise Rapid Charges of 15-20 minutes for cell phones and such. I will leave this to the experts on here to answer... but my understanding of Rapid Charging is that it works in a pinch but eventually ruins the battery. AND... every time you recharge a battery it degrades just a little bit. NOT having to recharge so often means a battery that should recharge more fully in subsequent recharges.
Robert B