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Originally Posted by John F
I'm of the opinion that everyone should evaluate based on their own usage patterns (or planned usage patterns).
If I was going to use the Oasis because of it's ergonomic design, and based on my reading habits, I would be worried about battery life. I think I would go through a lot of charge cycles. I can appreciate the reader is designed to be put in the cover whenever you aren't using it, but why change my reading habits due to thier design decision?
I also tend to pass the reader along to family members (or maybe even sell it), and I'm not sure I would be comfortable doing this with such a limited battery size (1/5 of a typical ereader battery).
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The thing is, the battery is only so limited if you ignore the cover or if you routinely go on truly epic backache-inducing reading binges. Personally I always carry the thing in the cover, even indoors, and only take it out when actually reading one-handed; so the cover is always right there when I put it down again, and dropping it into the cover is zero effort (no need to go looking for it or anything, and it really does just snap in and out, yanked in by magnetism).
I didn't need to change my habits at all: it was certainly a smaller change than, well, reading one-handed was. (I was forced away from reading one-handed about ten years ago by advancing RSI: the ability to go back to that again was a big part of why I got the Oasis. If you always used to read paper books two-handed the Oasis is probably not useful for you.)