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Originally Posted by badbob001
Things like this $2 adapter will smooth out the transition:
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Or you can just buy a plain micro-usb cable for about $1.25
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Originally Posted by badbob001
What I really care about is the part that sticks out from the device... why do they have to make it so long and big? It's pretty annoying to have an one inch spike poking out, putting the cable at odd angles and daring you to break it.
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Why are you worried about it in the case of eBook readers whose battery life is like 20 hours? It's Lithium Ion batteries, there is no penalty for you to just plug it in when not in use, so you should really never be very close to running low on batteries unless you're doing some kind of crazy long-form reading for a week straight without power... or sleeping...
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Originally Posted by badbob001
microusb: (Is the outside part getting longer as the inside part gets smaller?)
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The outside part's size is a matter of how intricate, error-prone and expensive the manufacture wants to make their process for creating the cables. Apple pays more to get the tighter tights and smaller connector caps. Though to some degree the smaller connector apparatus will impose more of the cabling be terminated outside the apparatus itself and cause the endcap to be a bit larger, until someone makes an effort to get the cabling smaller without loss of fidelity at the ends. So as I say, it comes down to costs. It's cheaper, with less loss, to make the connector bigger.