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On the clock front, computer clock chips are ridiculously bad. 5 minutes per week clock drift isn't unusual even on $20,000 servers. The usual excuse you're given is "connect it to the Internet so it can get the time". Amazon doesn't make the chips in the Kindles, so has no ability to make the clock work any better.
Note that my Jeep Wrangler's clock (displayed on the face of the stereo head) lost 5 minutes per week too. And that thing costed $35,000! And couldn't sync to the Internet, so I was always resetting the clock on the thing. Bad clocks are just a plague upon the tech world right now. SIGH.
Back to the shape thing -- I wish there was a battery case for the Oasis 2. That would solve two problems -- it'd solve the battery life problem, and it'd solve the "it doesn't lie flat on the table" problem. Maybe there is, and I just haven't found it on Amazon's site yet? Dunno....
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