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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I've just been reading on my 5 year old KA1, after it has been inactive for quite some time. (Reading is just one of my many hobbies, and sometimes one or the other doesn't get a lot of attention for some time.)
It seems the battery dropped 10% in around 50 minutes of reading. (Light is at 15-20%). This means it'll only hold a charge for 500 minutes, which is 8.5 hours. That's not very long... and as far as I know, I can't replace the battery in the KA1. Neither can this be done in any other newer Koob.
I wonder if there are readers that still have replaceable batteries.
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The real problem is if you leave it with the battery completely drained for any length of time. If you leave it 60% charged and top it up once a month or so even though you're not using it, it should prevent battery degradation. Not many people are willing to go to that hassle, though.
I just picked up a used Aura One this week and was a little worried that it might have a degraded battery, but fortunately it seems to be fine. Dropping about 10% a day, but that's with at least a few hours reading per day. 10% every hour would definitely have annoyed me.
When people say they don't care about battery performance when they get new devices, they almost invariably overlook that it isn't the first year of using the device they need to think about, but the second and third when the battery is only functioning around 50% of it's original capacity.