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Old 09-28-2022, 03:51 PM   #217
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Originally Posted by Phil_C View Post
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.
May I ask how many hours of reading did you do in six weeks? I am curious since my recently purchased Clara HD does not last nearly that long. I get maybe a week or so out of mine. I do read a lot though, I have seen 30 or so hours of reading on a charge, so I feel it is fine.

I came from the original H2O after breaking the screen. It seemed to do better on battery life. I do think the Clara is doing better than at first though. I am not really monitoring battery life anymore.
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