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Originally Posted by jharker
I don't know what it is about the e-reader community- there just seem to be people with insane expectations for performance.
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Mostly it's a matter of feeling like the marketing literature was ... excessively optimistic (shall we say?) regarding battery life.
Don't get me wrong, jharker, I agree with you that the Sony's 3~4 weeks of battery life is excellent,
much more than sufficient for my needs. And I can see that the iLiad's 10~15 hours is ample for most needs, particularly for a professional environment.
However, I also see that the iLiad's marketing declarations claimed 10,000 page turns or 3 hours of use per day for a month, which it ain't getting.
The Sony is better, with its 7,500 page turns claim, which it probably does get, if you press the "next" button 7,500 times in rapid succession, but it doesn't get that far if it takes you more than 3~4 weeks to read 7,500 pages (that'd be 267 pages a day for 4 weeks).
I agree that the battery life isn't something to complain about on its own, but it's standing in the shadows of the
claimed battery life. So folks aren't really fussing about the battery life itself, they're actually fussing about the fact that they aren't getting the battery life they were
told they would get.
The fact that what we have actually gotten is sufficient, doesn't make it okay that what we were told was so different from what we've gotten. That's all.
