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Originally Posted by NatCh
I'm pretty sure the Reader doesn't use a laptop battery -- they weigh more than the whole Reader does!
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The previous poster's argument goes more like, Sony did not recall any batteries for
their laptops yet, so don't worry about the Sony Reader.
Just for the record, Dell is recalling another
100'000 notebook batteries.
According to Sony, the cause for this nightmare is the presence of metallic particles inside the battery which causes a chance that the cells could overheat and catch fire under certain circumstances.
I am not sure why this could not happen to non-notebook batteries as well - however, as Nathan correctly pointed out, the battery of the Reader is a lot less powerful, so probably also less harmful in the worst event.