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Originally Posted by rem736
i understand your point. however, this is not practical when it comes to actual use by real people. let's say you start with a battery at 40% and it takes 30 minutes to get up to 60%. how many will be reading for a few hours to get it down to 40% and plugging it in just for 30 minutes and remember to remove it from charging in time. and with the oasis, i thought that the only way to charge the cover is to connect it to the reader itself. there is no way to charge the cover alone. trying to manage a 40% to 60% range in both the reader and the cover is not at all a practical, if not downright difficult thing to do.
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You don't have to control the charge yourself. It is done in software. All I'm saying is that Amazon could easily have decided that the internal battery be kept at a lower state of charge to increase the charge cycles the battery can sustain since it is a necessary consequence of the design that the internal battery will experience a much greater number of cycles than the external battery. The state of charge of the internal and external batteries can be individually controlled and set to different levels. This is trivially easy to implement.