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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
My iPaq can do that 2-3 days in a row, no problem. I'm not bragging... just saying, let's keep the battery life thing in perspective.
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Sounds good.
I'm aware that the PDAs I worked with were all 4 years or more behind cutting edge, and battery tech has improved. (The bits I've heard seem to imply that, as batteries have gotten better, they've loaded more features onto the devices so battery life hasn't improved nearly as much as it could have. But that's a separate issue.)
I'll happily grant that I don't need 2 weeks of reading life on a device; 8 hours is sufficient and 24 is more than I should ever need. (I don't go on camping trips where I expect to read notable amounts.)
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What's really important is whether your device suits your needs. If you really manage to get in 3-4 hours reading a day, make sure you get a device (or set of devices) that will accommodate that. If you only manage an hour a day, you'll probably have a larger range of choices that will work for you.
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Absolutely. I don't think there's ever going to be "the one perfect ebook reading device," any more than there's "one perfect computer" or "one perfect automobile"--there's enough variety in needs & preferences to support a lot of healthy competition.
I just hope the competition sorts out the real market forces soon so they can get around to better ePub display methods and real folder support.
Because even though there's no one universal best computer... they all play music CDs. They all run word processing programs. They all support spreadsheets. I'm hoping that ebook readers sort out what features they need to all have to be considered serious, and they can stop pitching those features and instead tell customers what the real trade-off choices are.