[ficbot]

Are there reliable stats on how use of text to speech affects the battery? I charged my new Kindle on Friday overnight and didn't use it much on Saturday. Sunday I was out shopping and had it on (using text to speech) for most of the day. But this morning it was only down about half of the first bar. I used it for about 45 minutes (cumulative) today with text to speech on and now am reading it in normal mode. The battery is half-empty.

Is this normal? Granted, my marathon shopping day was a bit of an exception and I normally wouldn't have it on for quite that long. But half a bar in three days doesn't quite seem like 'go two weeks without charging' so I want to make sure everything is behaving normally. With half an hour a day of text to speech plus an hour or so of normal reading, how long will the battery last? Does its current depletement make sense given the use it has had over the last few days, or should I be worried.