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Originally Posted by eldon
As an experiment, I have just installed FBreader on Google Glass (XE-C).
I was surprised at how easy it was to read the words of a book on the small screen.
Battery life on Google Glass is abysmal. A drains completely in an hour or two with the screen constantly on.
I used a wireless keyboard to turn the pages of the book.
Because of the battery life issue, Glass has to be plugged into a power source which makes the whole endeavour awkward.
Google Glass also has only one screen directly in front of the right eye so you are ready with only one eyeball. I found it more comfortable reading with my left eye closed.
I am nearsighted and wear prescription lenses, but even using G Glass without prescription frames, the text is easy to read for me which was surprising.
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Hi Eldon,
yes the reading is surprisingly doable and efficient. The Epson Moverio BT-300 have a 6hrs specs and 5+hrs in my tests. They do not need radio (though they have almost all of them, Wi-Fi to GPS). To connect a power bank to the BT-300 you would have the main cable coming from "bottom" and the power cable coming from the "right side", so it would not be optimal either. Nonetheless, as written, 5hrs/day of that kind of reading is probably enough. The BT-300 uses two displays, one per eye, with transparent background.