[LDBoblo]

FWIW, standby still drains the battery, and one informal test showed that in standby, a Sony Reader was dead in 3 weeks without any use. 2 weeks is somewhat reasonable, but very heavy readers will probably deplete the battery in less time than that. I am a moderate reader on my Sony, and I depleted the battery once in less than a week, and normally recharge every 9-10 days. Not sure how the Astak would behave, but likely not too differently.