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Old 09-29-2011, 02:47 AM   #31
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Why couldn't your sansa Clip+ pick up the slack? I agree that lack of audio might be a deal breaker for some, but to me the snap on hard cover of the Pocketbook 360 overcomes both the lack of audio and the lack of wi-fi or any other wireless. Of course, the PB 360+ has wi-fi, so Amazon should still not get a free ride.

Nonetheless, I think it is great that the non touch no keyboard Kindle is now available, and at a great price.
I generally do; but there are times when reading where I'll play some classical music through the KSO because I'm nowhere near a stereo and I want music without headphones.

And there are other times when I'm done reading where I'll play several chapters of an audiobook through the KSO because it's the only source near me for external speakers.

That said, my Clip+ gets more use than my KSO. But there are times when the KSO is handier for my audio needs.
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Yes. It will even charge from the USB port on a (powered up) computer. That is pretty much the lowest common denominator of USB charging.
Several of the newer laptops keep power on one of their USB ports when powered down.

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Hi, I just wanted to clarify about the battery life. It says a month with half hour reading time for new non touch kindle. So you can read for about 15 hours only? What's like 1-4 books only (depends on how long). I thought battery life is amazing for these devices and even if it's double for the other models it sums up to 30 hours or so. I know it isn't accurate or anything but from that is written it doesn't look very good. It makes it a bad device for travel (if the above is correct), if I don't bring my computer, my kindle is useless (or I have to buy the charger).

And it looks strange that the battery life is calculated with half an hour reading time every day. How often do you read a book for only half an hour? I read it in 1-2 days. I could get it if it were an hour a day or something like that, but why on earth half an hour?

How many books do you think you can read with one charge? How long does it charge via usb?

I plan to buy it but want to find out everything before so as no disappointments.
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Old 09-29-2011, 10:56 AM   #34
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Hi, I just wanted to clarify about the battery life. It says a month with half hour reading time for new non touch kindle. So you can read for about 15 hours only? What's like 1-4 books only (depends on how long). I thought battery life is amazing for these devices and even if it's double for the other models it sums up to 30 hours or so. I know it isn't accurate or anything but from that is written it doesn't look very good. It makes it a bad device for travel (if the above is correct), if I don't bring my computer, my kindle is useless (or I have to buy the charger).

And it looks strange that the battery life is calculated with half an hour reading time every day. How often do you read a book for only half an hour? I read it in 1-2 days. I could get it if it were an hour a day or something like that, but why on earth half an hour?

How many books do you think you can read with one charge? How long does it charge via usb?

I plan to buy it but want to find out everything before so as no disappointments.
These things are pretty hard to calculate with eink. I get much shorter reading times than most people, but it's probably about my reading style. I'm interested in seeing how everything turns out, so I read quickly. This means more page turns in a shorter time period and page turns are really what matters.

All I can tell you for sure is that it is extremely unlikely you would have to worry about running out of charge, even if you read all day.

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p.s. I don't mean this as a "I read faster than you" thing. The truth is that I enjoy rereading good books because I miss stuff the first time through.
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Hi, I just wanted to clarify about the battery life. It says a month with half hour reading time for new non touch kindle. So you can read for about 15 hours only? What's like 1-4 books only (depends on how long). I thought battery life is amazing for these devices and even if it's double for the other models it sums up to 30 hours or so. I know it isn't accurate or anything but from that is written it doesn't look very good. It makes it a bad device for travel (if the above is correct), if I don't bring my computer, my kindle is useless (or I have to buy the charger).

And it looks strange that the battery life is calculated with half an hour reading time every day. How often do you read a book for only half an hour? I read it in 1-2 days. I could get it if it were an hour a day or something like that, but why on earth half an hour?

How many books do you think you can read with one charge? How long does it charge via usb?

I plan to buy it but want to find out everything before so as no disappointments.
I think your reasoning might be flawed. The Amazon website lists this for the Kindle Keyboard (formerly called the Kindle 3):

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A single charge lasts up to two months with wireless off based upon a half-hour of daily reading time.
Based on your simplistic, and I think unrealistic, math, that translates into 30 hours of continuous use with the WiFi turned Off. That is way lower than I've ever gotten with my K3. I routinely read a few hours each day and I always have the WiFi turned On. I always get a couple of weeks of use before having to charge and I always charge well before it gets down to the 30% charge left state.

I get my Kindle non-touch today and will test. But I am willing to bet it will go at least a week with WiFi On and being used a few hours each day.
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My K3 was 80% drained yesterday in one day, but it was a worse case scenario. You would have to be trying to drain it to get there. I was driving for over six hours and I like to have my kindle read to me in long trips, so here is what happened:

- text to speech was running for five or six hours
- i accidentally left wifi on.
- The newer software allows TTS with the screen turned off to save page turns and battery life. However, I didn't turn it off so it was turning pages the entire time.
- for the last hour, (seventh hour) I read without TTS, but the light in the cover was on and wifi was still on.

You would really need to go all out (lights, wifi, tts, page turns) to run this thing out of juice and it still would take many hours.
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I wish they had a non-touch "high end" model.
They do, it is called the Kindle Keyboard.
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... for the Kindle Keyboard (formerly called the Kindle 3)...
Just for the sake of accuracy, note that Amazon have never used the name "Kindle 3". That's what everybody else calls it, but Amazon have always used names like "latest-generation Kindle" for it.
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Just for the sake of accuracy, note that Amazon have never used the name "Kindle 3". That's what everybody else calls it, but Amazon have always used names like "latest-generation Kindle" for it.
Which it loses as soon as the next generation arrives.
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Which it loses as soon as the next generation arrives.
Exactly, it's now the "Kindle Keyboard", or whatever it is that Amazon are calling it.
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Which it loses as soon as the next generation arrives.
but you don't/won't know till amazon starts using a handle, if they consider the two new eink models to be a 'new' generation or not.
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I'm a user who is going to hold off on these new Kindles as I'm perfectly happy with my K3 (and I am already bad enough at spending money on techy stuff), but I do think that the lack of a charger isn't the end of the world. Given the cost of the Kindles vs. other readers, etc. the cost of a USB charger isn't horrible. Heck, you don't even need to buy the one specifically for a Kindle. It just has to be a USB port that plugs into a wall. I've seen them on Amazon for less than $5 at times.

Given that more and more devices these days are chargeable via USB, I actually don't mind purchasing the type of chargers that have multiple USB ports as I can charge a phone, Kindle, MP3 player all at once as long as I have that device's USB cable.

I find it more troubling that many devices, especially MP3 players and phones, find it necessary to make proprietary connections on their actual devices. It would be nice if everyone would just use a standard Mini or Micro USB cable. But I'm digressing.

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I'm a user who is going to hold off on these new Kindles as I'm perfectly happy with my K3 (and I am already bad enough at spending money on techy stuff), but I do think that the lack of a charger isn't the end of the world. Given the cost of the Kindles vs. other readers, etc. the cost of a USB charger isn't horrible. Heck, you don't even need to buy the one specifically for a Kindle. It just has to be a USB port that plugs into a wall. I've seen them on Amazon for less than $5 at times.

Given that more and more devices these days are chargeable via USB, I actually don't mind purchasing the type of chargers that have multiple USB ports as I can charge a phone, Kindle, MP3 player all at once as long as I have that device's USB cable.

I find it more troubling that many devices, especially MP3 players and phones, find it necessary to make proprietary connections on their actual devices. It would be nice if everyone would just use a standard Mini or Micro USB cable. But I'm digressing.

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