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Originally Posted by Toeknee
In my experience, lithium based batteries are rock solid for at least a year, and often two or three years before I start really noticing a significant drop in charge life. In a year or two, I'm going to be wanting a new ereader anyways (lots of new features and abilities just over the horizon), so availability of after market batteries is not a huge issue to me.
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While what you say is true, I have a problem with manufacturers building in an automatic obsolence in their products by not having the battery user replacable. I feel that since I paid cash to own (and not lease for 2 years) a product, then I should be the one who decides that it no longer fits my needs and I should throw it out.
My Ipaq 4700 still works, and functions as a GPS, Ereader (handles just about any format), MP3 player, Movie Player - I have changed its battery and given it new life and still use it (though I admit less frequently).
Don't get me wrong, I still look for the newest and latest gadgets, but I still go back to older technology which sometimes is better - For Example I have a record player and only buy Vinyl records - they sound better (though I do convert them to MP3 for convenience).