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Originally Posted by bart_simpson
I figured it was to keep people from copying books, as if DRM weren't enough....
Compared to the REB 1100 and the original Rocket eBook, the battery life is not very good. Maybe it is still indexing the huge Webster's 1913 dictionary I have on the card, but a brand new lipo pack I built myself for the REB1100 seems to run down in just a few days while it lasts so crazy long in the REB1100 that I wasn't even bothering to measure.
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Update: it might not be the 1150's fault: I got fed up with seriously flakey battery behavior and took the battery pack apart, examining each battery with a volt meter and external (XTAR, supposedly a good brand) charger. One of the two batteries had lost a third of its capacity and would not hold a charge.
Anyway, I rewelded two brand new 18650s into the pack and the 1150 so far seems to be holding steady and the battery percent/time left is not jumping around crazily.
Finding a consistently good source of 18650s is an ongoing problem. I used to fix battery packs for Handheld PCs and old laptops, but it became too frustrating: like half the 18650s in my refurbished battery packs failed within 2 years. Right now, I don't fix anything that has more than 2 18650s in it and I'm getting ready to give up even with these.
