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garlicshampoo · 09-14-2021, 01:27 PM

Thanks everyone for the responses on the battery.

The reason I'm asking the seemingly obvious question of when to charge and how to gauge a device's battery independent of its battery gauge, is because my Clara does a very good job of tracking that, at least for now. Battery does not dip more than 3% daily (and that's with extensive reading in a day), stays consistent overnight, and overall finishes one charge after 2-3 weeks.

This matches with the typical usage experience for Kobo devices, so I was quite surprised to learn there are many devices with unreliable battery gauge. That said I will keep this in mind and next time will read until the device shuts down to see how long it really lasts.

I'm unfortunately switching back to Nickel for now since battery does drain much to quickly to my liking (given that I still trust the gauge on my Clara) and I need to save vocabulary (a beta feature on Nickel). I have Wifi and autosleep events turned off, and that still doesn't help.

09-14-2021, 01:27 PM	#15
garlicshampoo Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2021 Device: Kobo Clara	Thanks everyone for the responses on the battery. The reason I'm asking the seemingly obvious question of when to charge and how to gauge a device's battery independent of its battery gauge, is because my Clara does a very good job of tracking that, at least for now. Battery does not dip more than 3% daily (and that's with extensive reading in a day), stays consistent overnight, and overall finishes one charge after 2-3 weeks. This matches with the typical usage experience for Kobo devices, so I was quite surprised to learn there are many devices with unreliable battery gauge. That said I will keep this in mind and next time will read until the device shuts down to see how long it really lasts. I'm unfortunately switching back to Nickel for now since battery does drain much to quickly to my liking (given that I still trust the gauge on my Clara) and I need to save vocabulary (a beta feature on Nickel). I have Wifi and autosleep events turned off, and that still doesn't help.