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Old 11-30-2009, 06:52 AM   #45
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Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20
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Originally Posted by orwell2k View Post
Just curious - what kind of battery life do you get with this device? My BeBook is excellent for this - I can go a week or so without thinking about a recharge
The first charge -the one done by the factory or reseller - on my PB360 lasted more than a week. I think it was almost two weeks. And that was more than a week of playing, re-starting, reading, testing, changing fonts, repaginating books ...
It was connected to a PC in the meanwhile but never more than 5 minutes. Just to load a few books, a dozen or so fonts, 30 custom "screensaver" images (**), or to tweak some settings file, quickly disconnect for trying out the

I expect that under normal operations (*) a charge should last at least three weeks.

(*) reading tvice a day for at least an hour every day, much more than that on weekends

(**) I have downloaded lots of M.C.Escher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher) images, converted them to appropriate format and now, every time my PB shuts down I have different lovely graphics on the screen. (NOT some long dead authors like E-book device I shall not name ;-) )
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