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Originally Posted by kcladyz
I feel you can have thin and a good battery.
Take the oasis. The fat edge is about the thickness of a Voyage which is thinner than the paperwhite. Just make the battery larger/wider and do away with that edge and make the whole thing the same thickness. It will still be thinner than most devices and have more battery power or better yet make a 7 inch or 8 inch voyage and increase the battery size by that much. Thin is good but we do not need a paper thin one
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And I've been reading about battery issues with the new Oasis. Also, Amazon doesn't make batteries. They buy already made batteries. So I don't see Amazon trying to get some company to make custom batteries for one model Kindle. That would raise the price to beyond affordable Given that Reader makers have to use already existing batteries, stop going lighter/thinner at the expense of the battery. Yes, I read that others are saying but they last longer then phones/tablets. True, but take a Reader with an even better battery. It will last longer than this lighter/thinner Reader with a lassoer batter before the user will find the battery no longer acceptable.
There are batteries where we could get months instead of weeks. I'd rather that as the expense of lighter/thinner. Think of how much hardcover trade paperback books can weight. Most Readers don't weight that much.