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dhbailey · 05-20-2007, 07:46 AM

I'm still deciding on the music-playing aspect of the Reader. I can understand the extra drain on the battery, but I am still intrigued by the thought of not needing to have two devices with me in order to listen to music while reading.

I have already decided not to use the memory card to hold books, since I have seen that reading from the memory card does drain the battery faster than storing the books on the reader itself.

So yesterday I filled my 2GB SD card with mp3 files and will see how that affects battery drain just having it in the reader, since most of the time I don't listen to music while reading. But I do appreciate the ability to do so and will continue my experiment.

I am aware that once listening to music starts, I can't put the reader down without actively turning it off since the auto-off function doesn't work if there's a music file playing.

05-20-2007, 07:46 AM	#33
dhbailey Guru Posts: 604 Karma: 733 Join Date: Mar 2007 Device: HP iPAQ211 / PRS 500, 700 and 505	I'm still deciding on the music-playing aspect of the Reader. I can understand the extra drain on the battery, but I am still intrigued by the thought of not needing to have two devices with me in order to listen to music while reading. I have already decided not to use the memory card to hold books, since I have seen that reading from the memory card does drain the battery faster than storing the books on the reader itself. So yesterday I filled my 2GB SD card with mp3 files and will see how that affects battery drain just having it in the reader, since most of the time I don't listen to music while reading. But I do appreciate the ability to do so and will continue my experiment. I am aware that once listening to music starts, I can't put the reader down without actively turning it off since the auto-off function doesn't work if there's a music file playing.