Hello everyone,
it's nice to be here.
This is my first post but I've been reading this forum since I bought my reader (Dec 2006). I love the device, first time I saw article about a reader I knew I will buy it not even waiting until it will be available in Europe, although I've got lots of technical pdfs (IT and math) and as you know dealing with pdf (reading or converting) is just a pain. But still love it
Anyway, I've read many threads regarding battery and usually everyone measures its life by number of page changes or number of hours the reader is turned on.
I've got a feeling that something is wrong with my battery (similarly to DiabloNL, sometimes I can make only 500 pages). I noticed that I have to re-charge the reader once a month, no matter if I read 5 pages per day (it happens with tech books, please don't laugh
or 100 per day. Basically it drops one bar each week so after 20-25 days it reaches one bar. No mp3, no USB. Probably I could make thousand of pages (I hope) but I've never made such test and most of the books I have I cannot read that fast. I've read that this type of battery needs more than couple of months to discharge itself but it seems that this is the main factor in my case. What is your experience with it? Have you ever left your reader unused for couple of weeks and noticed that the battery level dropped, how many bars? What is you battery life in terms of days? Have you ever been able to use the reader more than one month without charging (no matter of number of pages you made, if it was thousand or dozen) ?
Mike
P.S I've got this annoying post-update battery weirdness, soft reset or plug-in-when-turned-on method seems to fix it, the only real change I noticed is that I don't have self "recharging" symptom anymore. Before the update the battery could go from 3/4 to full and then to 3/4 again, but now it never happens. Anyone can notice the same?