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Originally Posted by patrik
I bought the Aura HD about the same week it was released (in the UK) and it has had heavy use and is still going strong. Sure, the battery doesn't keep as long as it did, but still way longer than I ever get the need to actually charge it (it charges enough whenever I connect it to have Calibre to play with it).
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Your battery has been regularly charged, not sat on a shelf and ignored for two years (which is what we can only assume is the likely story of these bargain devices, given when they were discontinued and that they're not refurbs). Very different situations. We don't know what temperature these were stored at, when exactly they were manufactured, whether anyone has checked the batteries...
Even if well treated, though, I'd hesitate to buy a device of that age if I was an avid reader and wanted it to last for more than a year or two. My H2O is two and a half years old, has been charged regularly and well treated, and is definitely showing noticeable battery degradation.