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Originally Posted by NullNix
The Oasis 1 can. Turn the light off and rely on external lighting and if it's not indexing anything it'll easily go ten to twelve hours on a charge. Four recharges -> sixty hours. This is not speculation, I've done it. Not quite a week of nonstop reading, but several days easily. (I do use small text, one stop from smallest, but I also read fast so I was turning pages quite rapidly: I guess the two balance out, maybe.)
Obviously you only turn the light off like this if you know you're far from power: otherwise, halving the battery life is an acceptable tradeoff for the nicer screen quality the lighting gives you.
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My O1 doesn't last 10 days either. I actually have turned off the light during day. I do that on my O2 also. In bright light or next to a window, its a wash so I turn it off. I do need it when it gets darker. But I don't go above 9 at this point.
Again, its not about days, its about how much one reads. I read a lot, no kindle will ever last me 10 days, unless they make one with built in solar panels or find some new fandangled battery technology.
Voyage and O1 I got 4 days of batter, O1 I get about 2.5 or so. Same reading pattern. I read at #4 and use #3 bold. So I use a bit more. But in the end, its the amount of reading I do. It wouldn't matter if I never turned on the light, it would still never last me 10 days. Unless I am in a coma.
I get easy though 10-12 hours on a charge, on all of my kindles. Its more like 20 hours with the O2 and closer to 30 I think on the Voyage. My O1 lost the ability to now hold much of a charge out of the cover. It used to be 7 plus hours with light, now its like 2 hours, if that. Its why I went to the O2.
The keyboard I think still has the best battery overall. But no light makes it a no go in the dark. I can put that thing on the shelf and its still charged full a month later. But even it, when I used it full time, never gave me 10 days of battery. Cause again, I read and read and read
