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I know that this has been debated to death here, but I thought I would chime in with my perspective as an Oasis owner for the last month because it contrasts with the consensus here.

There's no way this battery isn't going to be a problem. I keep my Oasis in airplane mode and my light is constant at 10. The rate at which I find I'm charging the Oasis is similar to the pattern of charging a cell phone. I'm guessing I'm getting around 4 or 5 hours to a charge, although I try not to let it discharge below approx. 20% before connecting it to the cover.

I love the reader. I didn't think I would, as I was set on getting the Aura One and am partial to Kobo for the larger size screen that I find preferable to the 6" sized readers. The ergonomics and the weight are the winning characteristics for me.

I don't think I'm going to keep it because of the battery life. It's not that the battery life is insufficient as it is in it's nearly-new state. I read mostly at home and it's simple to recharge it without disrupting my reading habits. The problem is in a year or two, with the frequency with which I'm finding I am charging it, the battery will exhibit the characteristic most of us have experienced with cell phones, where I'm guessing I'll be getting something like two or three hours per charge, and that's unacceptable.

It wouldn't bother me if there was a user-friendly means with which to replace the battery, but there isn't.

Without rehashing the same old discussion about battery physics, am I missing something here in my analysis? I've been very surprised that others don't seem to share my concern when reading past discussions on this issue.

I read maybe an hour a day, and I know there have to be Oasis owners here that are heavier readers than myself. I'm in Canada and my Oasis was $500 with 3G and I can't afford to have a device that lasts a couple years before becoming useless due to battery degradation.