Hey, WilliamG, welcome to the forum!
To answer your questions:
1) I didn't check, but I don't think so.
2) That's a very good question, the 7500 pages is supposed to be straight through page flips, I believe. And I'm sure that the batt will slowly lose charge even when it's not used, it's a Li-Ion, they do that.
But nobody (except Sony, and they ain't sayin') has had one long enough to really answer what you (and we) really want to know: "how long will it last for
me?" Ask us again in a couple of months.
3) If any of us had one one, do you really think we'd let go of it? We do feel your pain, though.
