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Originally Posted by Quoth

Your claim about Libra 2 'appalling battery life' is massive hyperbole.

Does it sound better to you if I modify that claim to be instead MY LIbra 2 has appalling battery life.

Originally Posted by Quoth

Perhaps you have sync, WiFi, BT and frontlight all on and a faulty sleep cover?

The Sage has the poorest battery life of any Kobo and it's still acceptable.

WiFi & BT are turned off, auto-sync option is disabled, device is even in that "SideloadedMode" (I've switched to that after 2 charge cycles).
The latest firmware (4.38.xxx) is installed on it.
Tried using it without the 3rd party cover (before trying that I've disabled the option for those wake/sleep cover events).
Compared batttery drain when sleeping on stock Kobo software vs when KOReader is opened, no significant differences.

I sincerely doubt that Kobo's book database file has managed to corrupt itself while I've transfered a single book to the device.

I've charged it 4 times in last 1.5 month of using it and even those claims of random internet people that Libra 2 needs 2,3,4 charges to "better calibrate battery indicator" look to be bullsh*t.

My Libra 2 is a "revision 2" , that IIRC has a different PMIC chip ...

Originally Posted by Sirtel

By the way, do you use KOReader? I've heard the battery life is worse with that than the native software on recent Kobo models. I've not used KOReader since I tried it in 2019, so again can't make personal comments.

I do use KOReader and that was the reason and intention when I decided to buy this Libra 2. BUT also keep in mind that those 6 charges for a 12 month time period & 7000 screens read stats for Kindle PW5 are also while using KOReader 100% of the time.

Standby battery draing from my notes isn't while running KOReader, since I still haven't jailbreak-ed this PW5 unit #3 (I have the choice since the device arrived with firmware 5.15.1 which is jaibreakable), so no using KOReader before doing that. I plan to do that if I decide to resell Libra 2 and to risk it again for the 3rd time with PW5.
( MY first PW5 bricked itself 15 days after bying it and the second PW5 managed to be alive for about 16 months, all 16 I was using KOreader... the bootloop & bricked happend after I've exited KOReader and used stock firmware to test KFX "personal documents" when Amazon started converting books send via email of Send to Kindle to KFX format).