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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Thinner is bad. Lighter is bad. Thinner and lighter means smaller batter with less life between charges.
Thinner and lighter needs to stop. We need good batteries, not weak ones because the device is too thin for a good solid battery.
I want to see these devices with the larger screens have a good battery. They don't in order to go thinner and lighter.
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As the owner of a Kobo Aura One, I feel a reasonable balance was struck. Would I prefer a longer battery life? As an absolutely voracious reader, yes!
But I would not wish my reader to be any heavier. It is carried everywhere, so weight IS a factor, and I would not wish it to increase. As for thickness, it feels good in my hand, neither too thin or too thick. And the screen size is marvelous!
I'm not in favor of plastic screens to make devices lighter either, as plastic scratches. I'll take a durable glass screen at the sacrifice of a little battery life. I don't need my reader to last weeks on a charge, several days is fine. Frankly, NO ereader I've EVER used lasted weeks with my kind of usage....
I adopted ereaders to get AWAY from thick and heavy books, in spite of the fact that the paper books never required a charge.
My advice, if you need extra reading time out of a device and don't mind carrying some weight? Battery pack.
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