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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm afraid that I condider this to be a complete "non issue", although I appreciate that it's more important than that to you. My belief is that, once you're reset the meter, it reads correctly until you recharge your Reader again. I only recharge about once every three weeks, and don't consider something that takes no more than a few seconds to do every three weeks to be anything to lose sleep over.
Yes, it's slightly irritating, but no more than that. The Reader is so excellent overall that a bug this trivial certainly doesn't alter my views of it.
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Maybe I have two problems. The battery issue frequently is accompanied by my reader hanging and displaying FORMATTING. This for a book, for which several- to- many pages have already been read. The book is in main memory AND the book was placed on the reader using PC based Connect SW. Book is not a "DRM'ed Book either; plain old lrf format. I don't believe the book file NEEDS FORMATTING IN THIS SITUATION.
My wife has become the principal user of the reader. She is "computer adverse". Therefore if the reader does anything wrong IT IS a big problem for me. The formatting hang is fixed using the battery reset technique but it stops her reading of course.
A consumer product designed for the masses needs to have the correct battery level display because there are many users who do not read this board. Users are confused by a display that tells them to recharge too often. Yes they can call the help desk but that is asking the user to invest more time/effort into using a "consumer" product.
Many Many people HATE Microsoft's Windows OS. They use it because they have little choice if they wish to use many programs that are not supported by Apple. UNIX variants are still too GEEKY for the average consumer. DO we want reader users to be P.O.ed at the Sony Reader too? For me the BUG is a MAJOR annoyance. For many I suspect it is a turn-off that will result in a turn-off.
If the battery bug was only about the display AND IF the reader was targeted to users who have a higher threshold for pain than the average consumer (like many forum members seem to be) the BATTERY BUG would be a minor issue.
I think I have stumbled onto a few interesting expressions. My opinions of course:
Saying a book is DRMed infers the negativity that it is.
A "turn-off that results in a turn-off " says it all I think.
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