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Originally Posted by davidfor
I don't remember hearing of that before. I don't normally read comics, but I'll have to try it.
The battery is a Li-Ion cell, so calibrating the power meter like you do for a laptop could be useful.
Dropping by 30% overnight is very high. But, it can do an automatic sync overnight and if this has trouble, the batter usage can be high.
And comparing the battery usage to others is a bit hard. It depends so much on how you use the device. While reading, the power usage is basically when turning the page. While you are reading the page, the CPU will go into a low power mode, and use very little power. So, a slower reader will get more battery life than a fast reader. Or if you are simply flipped through the pages, the battery will be used a lot faster. As you mention CBZ, I have always assumed these end up using more power. The size of the files, plus rendering the image for each page and they seem to be quicker to read than a page of text, should mean more power is used than for a text novel.
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the battery life thing is simple, I have wifi _always_ off except really rarely when i decide to use pocket maybe once a week or less. Furthermore the battery life thing I did, I _only_ read epubs no cbz I only did a test with cbzs lately and they also seem to _not_ use the orientation of the images themselves. It seems tot take whatever the dimensions of the cover(aka first image) and rotate it to fit the screen best.
Also this thing changes pages _slower_ than my NST so I'd hardly call it a "fast" ereader the lag in the UI is similar or worse than the NST I had previously. it had a 800mhz cpu and I think 256MiB of ram and was running android 2 with the entire UI/reading app etc was all done via java.