There are dark clouds on the horizon for all of us who bought an iRex Iliad and hoped to get Sony Reader- or Hanlin-like battery-life.
After our member Malder1 had caused quite a stir with his comment in
this thread, I put the question up on the iRex Forums
here and asked for some answers from the iRex team.
The answer is there, and it has no good news. Basically, it boils down to "the iLiad was not designed to hibernate or suspend to RAM/FLASH".
What this means is that if you want to use your Iliad for casual reading, maybe 5 minutes or 10 minutes when you have a short downtime you'll have to do a full and time-consuming power-up and power-down every time and probably also navigate your way back to the book you had last been reading.
How an oversight like this could ever have happened with a 650€ device is beyond me. iRex, I'm heavily disappointed!