09-14-2007, 10:39 PM | #31 |
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09-14-2007, 10:46 PM | #32 |
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Huh, I thought this thing's battery lasted forever.
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09-15-2007, 07:47 AM | #33 |
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09-15-2007, 10:10 AM | #34 |
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By "this thing" I meant the Reader.
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09-15-2007, 09:49 PM | #35 |
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Well, the battery itself probably would last close enough to forever left in a dump somewhere. (Or my desk drawer, which amounts to nearly the same thing.) At least enough for an archaeologist to find and wonder.
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09-16-2007, 09:05 AM | #36 |
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Dead batteries do tend to last forever (unless you can recondition them).
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09-16-2007, 12:15 PM | #37 |
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eBooks are inferior to pBooks because you can't leave them scattered over your desk, open to different pages, to show managers, co-workers, family, etc. how busy you are. People see you looking at a neat little eBook reader and assume that whatever you're doing can't be that complicated, so it's ok to interrupt you.
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09-17-2007, 10:04 AM | #38 |
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because the new long life battery is nothing more than an atomic pile, no backlight needed since you glow too
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