[HarryT]

I don't know how many pages I get on a battery charge, but it's certainly SEVERAL thousand, even if not the 7,500 that Sony claim. Since I last charged my Reader I've read the whole of a 2,100 page book, and I'm 500 pages into a 2nd book, and my Reader is still showing 3 bars on the battery meter.

Their claim is presumably under some sort of "ideal" test conditions, just like the "miles per gallon" claim for a car is made under the optimal conditions of driving around and around a race track at a constant speed, and bears little relationship to the way that you drive a car in the "real world".

I'm more than happy with the battery life of my Reader.