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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
How many years did you get out of your Clara HD, and what's the battery life like now?
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My regularly used Clara HD is 38 months old. It originally lasted 6+ weeks on a charge until it reached 10%, and then would deplete overnight.
Now it goes for about 2.5 weeks until it reaches about 40% and then depletes overnight -- or sometimes in minutes.
I bought a second HD at about the same time to fiddle with. I figured I would keep it stored most of the time at 75% charge, and after a couple of years put it into full time use as "almost new". This strategy worked well with the old Sony T-3. But not with the Kobo. The much less-used battery of the stored device acts exactly the same as the much-used one.
As an aside, before I knew the 2E would exist, I recently bought a third HD on sale. (Yes I really love these small readers!) I think Rakuten was selling very old stock, because the battery displayed the same poor behavior as my two old ones! So I returned it, which was good because then the 2E was announced.
The HDs are still useful. I will probably give one to a friend who is still using one of my old T-3s.