[enuddleyarbl]

Reducing the number of collections didn't help. With the battery above 50%, I get my "normal" ~10% battery loss per hour. At about the 50% mark, I can watch the electrons spill out of the device and puddle on the ground. I read for half an hour and lost 30%. Right now, I've pulled up the battery indicator and am watching it decrease roughly 1% a minute. Oh, well. Time for some kind of new device.

EDIT: seconds after I finished the above, the battery went to 11%. Moments later, the 10% "charge your battery" warning came up. Almost instantly, the device shut down.