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Originally Posted by Shaggy
That's because it's gone into standby/sleep mode (whatever you want to call it) and isn't refreshing the screen. The meter doesn't change if the screen isn't refreshed, so it's not showing you an accurate reading.
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Yes, I understand that. But when I pick it back up and start reading with it after all that time, it will remain on a full charge for quite a few page turns before dropping a bar. That's likely because the battery has discharged to just above the 25% level, and some page turns gets it down to that point. It's still quite a bit better performance in power management than what is being reported here about the DR800, and I do think I remember reading on this forum a few months back that the DR800 has a larger battery than the Iliad - making it sound like Irex hasn't solved their power management issues at all, they just gave up and tossed a bigger battery in the DR800 hoping it would last longer.
All in all, from everything I've read, the Sony 505 really hit the ball out of the park with build quality. The only thing I hate about the thing is its epub support, but I solve that by just reformatting everything to a PDF of a size for the Sony's screen, and voila. The perfect reader would be a Sony 505 with the DR800 screen.