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Originally Posted by scstraus
I was pretty much ready to buy one now that it has mobipocket and rss, but this killed it. What's the point with only 5-10 hours of battery life. That's horrible. There are laptops/tablet pc's in that range. The whole point is to be measured in pageflips, not hours. Now I can see if your taking notes or browsing web, but just for reading? That kills the whole purpose of this device. Unfortunate.
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I must disagree, and I think you are slightly misinformed.
For reading the iLiad is excellent (I haven't bought a paper book since I got mine). Reading time is somewhere between 10 and 15 hours, and if you read more than that in a row you need a break anyway
This was with the powersaving PDF patch (which is easy to install), for mobipocket files the milage might vary slightly but should still be more than 10 hours. And I expect the powersaving stuff to be added to mobipocket, either by Tao/iRex or by the community.
In fact notetaking is a bigger problem -- for all-day meetings you have to charge it during lunch. Not a big issue, but still annoying, especially if you forget it
I am as annoyed as anyone with the false advertising, but I still love this gadget