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ebooks2011-07-28 11:00 pm
truthiselliptical) wrote in ebooks2011-07-28 11:00 pm
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A question with regard to Kindle 3's battery life
Greetings!
First of all, please forgive me if I'm asking something stupid (or something that has been asked before), but I'm new around, and I'll admit I haven't had the opportunity to look around the community much.
That being said, I've a question, and I am hoping perhaps someone could enlighten me. :)
The Kindle manual says that the battery should last about a month (with wireless off, which, in my case, it always is). I've been using it somewhere between 6 and 8 hours per day, and it needed recharging around every 10-12 days. Is that normal? I've only used it this much for about a month, and before (and since), the battery life has been within range (or whatever Amazon.com calls "range"), but still, am curious...
My logic dictates that the it isn't the TIME itself that matters, but page-turns. Still, is that anywhere in "normal" range for a Kindle 3?
And something else, also related to the battery-life: after you upload a ton of books on it, does it DO anything that eats up insane amounts of battery-life? Like, I don't know, indexing or anything similar? After I put books on it it kind of froze and worked rather sluggishly and then the battery (which has been about half-full) just depleted itself FAST. The consumption rate looks normal now, but then it was just... weird.
Thank you for your time, and, again, I do hope I haven't broken any community rules or something. :)
First of all, please forgive me if I'm asking something stupid (or something that has been asked before), but I'm new around, and I'll admit I haven't had the opportunity to look around the community much.
That being said, I've a question, and I am hoping perhaps someone could enlighten me. :)
The Kindle manual says that the battery should last about a month (with wireless off, which, in my case, it always is). I've been using it somewhere between 6 and 8 hours per day, and it needed recharging around every 10-12 days. Is that normal? I've only used it this much for about a month, and before (and since), the battery life has been within range (or whatever Amazon.com calls "range"), but still, am curious...
My logic dictates that the it isn't the TIME itself that matters, but page-turns. Still, is that anywhere in "normal" range for a Kindle 3?
And something else, also related to the battery-life: after you upload a ton of books on it, does it DO anything that eats up insane amounts of battery-life? Like, I don't know, indexing or anything similar? After I put books on it it kind of froze and worked rather sluggishly and then the battery (which has been about half-full) just depleted itself FAST. The consumption rate looks normal now, but then it was just... weird.
Thank you for your time, and, again, I do hope I haven't broken any community rules or something. :)
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If I'm downloading a lot of books, I do so while it's charging so I don't notice a decrease in battery life.
I have gotten 3 weeks out of my Kindle 3. But not if I've been playing a lot of the games, using the light (on the cover) or using the wireless or 3G, or using the music player. Plain reading when I haven't altered my library doesn't seem to cause problems with the battery life for me.
If I play games at night using the light and have just sent a bunch of fic to my Kindle, I generally charge it for an hour about once a week. That keeps it solidly in the middle two-thirds of battery range.
If you can read on it all day for almost 2 weeks without charging, that seems pretty decent.
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I got one solid month out of it reading about 4/5 hours a day. I think, however, that it would be fairer to post battery life in terms of hours of reading (with wireless on and off) rather than weeks. Reading 8 hours per day isn't the same thing as reading, say, 2. :)