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Although I prefer any electronic device to have a removable battery, sometimes you just don't have a choice. In the quest to make devices thin, the removable battery is usually the first thing to go. How many iPod devices have been sold without removable batteries?
Having said that, I'm not too worried about the battery in my jetBook. Lithium Ion batteries are good for about 1000 charge cycles. If you did a full charge every night, that's almost three years. Since no one needs to charge an ereader that often, you're likely to get substantially more life than three years.
Even without recharge cycles, the batteries do degrade with age, but I'd guess that you're still good for 3+ years. By that time, most of us will want a different ereader. And if not, the pictures Kralik posted show that taking apart a jetBook isn't too difficult.
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