[AgentBEATS]

Okay, I just received a PRS-505 that I won off of ebay. It came just as described, used with a few scratches, but overall I'm very happy with it. However what has come to my attention is the battery.

The auction said it worked great, not very descriptive but I thought nothing of it. And anyways, the unit does work great, so far. When I got it yesterday I turned it on to see if it had any battery and found it with 1 bar left. I figured it would be better to let it run dry before fully charging it, so I haven't done that yet.

The first thing I did with it was install PRS+, but after that was finished I got the warning low battery indicator, which I thought nothing of. I wanted to load a book on it just to finish it off once and for all so I connected it to my computer. It couldn't have been hooked up for any more than 5 minutes, but when I disconnected it the battery showed three bars. I don't know how fast this device is supposed to charge, but that struck me as wrong.

This was all around 11pm last night. Since then I've read and played with the unit for maybe a few hours, anywhere between 200-300 page turns and the battery indicator is back down to one bar.

Now maybe I'm being a little paranoid, but I thought the 505 was supposed to get around 7500 page turns on one charge. Now I know in real life situation a majority of devices do not get anywhere near the factory estimate, but I figured it would be a bit better than this. I've read that others can read a week or more on one charge, so 1 bar on the battery indicator should really last longer than a few hundred page turns.

Am I jumping the gun here, or could there be something wrong with the battery?