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Originally Posted by Duiker
Too make a long story short if page through approx 835 pages then checked my battery life. I would say it moved down a little more then an 1/8. So clearly the battery drain on my kobo is not about page turns, so it must be something else.
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Nice one. That's great information to help pin down the problem.
My suspicion is also that page turns don't consume a lot of battery, and that those of us with sub-par battery performance (1000 turns or less) are having our battery drained in other ways.
My current focus is on powering the Kobo Reader off between reading sessions. I'm still doing the test, but from my previous charge I got ~750 turns (while the device was left always on), and from this charge I've already had 975, and my battery claims to have about 1/3 of its juice left (but I don't trust the battery status, it seems to decrease in large increments). I will post my final figures once my battery fully drains.
In any case, it seems that I am getting better battery life by powering the device off when I am not reading, which corresponds to advice a few people have given in this thread. If you don't already do so you may want to give that a shot.
I can't remember who, but someone mentioned that on this forum that their Astrak eReader suffered terrible battery life until the first firmware upgrade. This would suggest that battery drain can managed at a firmware level. Perhaps by putting the device to sleep after a period of time or something like that.