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Originally Posted by rcentros
My main issue/question with/about the Oasis right now (besides the price) is whether or not the case can be independently charged. In my opinion, the whole point of a rechargeable case goes away if you can't charge it independently. (Waiting for someone to actually get one.)
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I don't think it is going to be an issue or even inconvenience in practice, for most people. Some people will complain, no matter what. So yes, we will benefit by having opinions if not actual experimental data to refer to.
But by going only by Amazon's fuzzy specs, we can say that there is more reading time stored up in there than for any other available Kindle ('months' - meaning at least two months and assuming no more than that - versus 'weeks' - which we must assume is less than 2 months or they could call that 'months' too, so at most 'seven weeks'). We know this is not 'continuous' reading, more like 30 minutes a day but whatever: more is more.
The cover is good for about (I think this is how the milliamperes work out) 3-1/2 complete recharges of the Oasis. If you run out of juice on Oasis, you can keep reading immediately by attaching the cover and letting it recharge as you read. If you take breaks for food or other activities, it recharges from the cover as you do those other things and maybe you never actually have to read with cover attached or even plug into external power even on your most marathon day of reading. Eventually you have to sleep, and if you have access to external power, problem solved, everything is completely charged up when you wake up and continue the reading marathon. If not, you still have more recharges available, and again it's all better than any other Kindle is.