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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Yes,you are asking for too much. There needs to be some heft to these devices so they are easier to hold. There also needs to be more room for a battery that holds more of a charge. So that means no more thinner and lighter. Just pick a decent size and leave it at that. If batteries do get smaller, then we can have even more battery life as there will be plenty of size for a good battery.
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See, that's just your belief -- you apparently consider it essential that an e-reader contain enough battery for a 12-hour marathon reading session unpunctuated by the demands of biology, and that things like being able to hold the thing and turn pages with one hand are unimportant. Myself, I consider the latter more important than the former: my hands won't hurt while I'm reading, I can drink a coffee without even putting the book down, and who cares if the battery is half-drained in six hours or so? I'm going to eat something at some point in that timespan, and when I'm doing that I'm using both hands and the e-reader is flat on the table, in its cover, recharging...
My Oasis internal device battery has run low
twice -- both times when I was trying to run it out. I've never even got a low-battery warning otherwise, and I never even look at the battery life. I wouldn't have believed it either, but combined with the case battery, the tiny six-hour-or-so battery really
is long enough: there is no need for a larger one, and any weight spent on it woudl be weight wasted. You just have to treat the case as part of the device, and get into the habit of snapping it back in whenever you're not actually reading.