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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
The nook is a nice reader, but I ended up returning it because the battery life is the worst of any e-ink device I've owned. I could get three days of regular (i.e. several hours a day) reading on it with minimal use of the wireless (i.e. turn it on to download my Newspaper, turn it off right afterwords). I get well over a week (sometimes even a month or more) out other devices I've owned, such as the Pocketbook 360 or Kindle DX (which is quite good on the batteries with the wireless turned off). I even turned down the brightness of the lcd and made it shut down sooner but the battery life was still bad. This was my second nook with a similar issue, so I don't think it is a problem with the battery. For an LCD device the battery life is awesome. For an e-ink device it stinks. It takes after it's daddy more than its mommy, I guess.
Luqman
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out of curiosity do you find outlets are unavailable after 3 days of reading?
I always found this an interesting complaint about battery life. If it's under a day, sure but anything beyond 2 days or so, why does plugging it in all of a sudden become this ohhhh sooo tireless chore that we just can't bear to deal with. I mean people don't have their e-read locked to their face 24/7,
Do people not watch regualar Television, go out for an evening, watch movies at home, do yardwork? Why is plugging in your device an ubearable task to do while you go and do something when you aren't reading?
If you like leaving your device on with all the wi fi/3G ect. going why and how is charging it after 3 days an unbearable chore?
I charge my iPone every night, I don't rant and rave about it. My laptop can't go over 3 hours, I simply plug it in.
even if you go away somewhere, are people saying that they will be no where near an outlet?
When I have everything going I recharge mine after about 3 days as well.
When I'm locked into a book, I put it on Airplane Mode (turns off both 3G and Wi Fi) I easly get over 7 days, rougly around 9 or 10.
I think battery life is one of the most overated spec people love to hang their hats on. If your device goes beyond 2 days without charging, I find it extremely difficult to believe that it is a HUGE inconvience to charge it after 3 days.
Again I can see the complaint if it were less than a day. but 3 days min. 7-10 Max? seriously?
I think we as a society have become to complainish about too many little things in life.
