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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You would have to charge the Oasis more than the PW. The Oasis battery is going to die much sooner than your PW because the batter gets charged from the cover and will need many more charges and thus will not last as long.
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I think when seanyyz says 'charge' he means what most of us mean by 'charge', i.e. 'how often will I be tied to a wall socket due to running out of power', not 'how often will I put the Kindle in its case' which for me at least happens whenever I'm not reading it (it's that convenient to snap it in, a fraction of a second, if that). It's convenient enough to do that that I have only run out of device power when actually *trying* to: normally, it never gets below about 40%, and even that requires a fairly epic reading session. The case recharges it without my even noticing.
I can say that my Oasis is tied to a wall socket no more often than my PW1 was, perhaps a little less often -- there's not much in it. (And it really is much more comfortable to hold!)
If you think you might run short of power, turn the light off: it appears that the little device battery lifetime is perhaps as much as doubled by doing this, which would give you >60--70hrs lifetime on the cover battery.
If you have an old (pre-300dpi) PW, then *any* current PW-class Kindle (a PW, Voyage, or Oasis) will provide a noticeably better reading experience simply because the screen has got much better. Also, those horrible delays indexing things? They're gone, and the indexer seems to take only a few minutes to index each book these days. What wonders faster CPUs and more RAM can do
