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My Kindle 2 was showing some dreadful battery life. I had it fully charged, and it was down to about 50 percent after reading for about 5 hours (whispernet is OFF).
I called Amazon and the customer service rep, while she clearly WANTED to help, was kinda clueless. First she tried to tell me that using any content not purchased from Amazon could adversely impact the battery life (oh come on, do I look like I just climbed out of the turnip patch??)
Then she asked me if I had a lot of books on the device. Well, yes I do, in fact well over a thousand. She suggested I remove all books from it, reset to factory settings, then move back JUST the one I am actually reading, and see if that made a difference.
And it DOES make a difference! So having a lot of books on it reduces battery life??? That's strange.
With my K1, I kept most of my books on a memory card and just put it in the device long enough to swap something in or out of the reader. Then I removed it. This is clearly not gonna work for K2. sigh.
How strange is THAT, for battery life to be destroyed by having too many ebooks on an ebook reader???
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