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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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572 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source
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shbooms ◴[17 Oct 24 03:15 UTC] No.41866101[source]▶
What's the deal with ereaders and their seeming disdain for sane battery life measurements?

Amazon boasts "up to 8 weeks on a single charge" in all their selling points, then, in the fine print states "A single charge lasts up to eight (8) weeks, based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless off and the light setting at 13".

So, it has 28 hours of actual use time, got it. Why not just say that?

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1. int_19h ◴[17 Oct 24 18:00 UTC] No.41872003[source]▶
The problem is defining "use time". With eInk readers, the only time it needs to be actually awake is when refreshing the screen, and then it goes back to sleep immediately after. So depending on your reading speed, one hour of active reading time - which is what the users themselves would normally think as "use time" - can vary a lot in how much power actually gets used.

That said, I do think they should just give the number in terms of page refreshes and let the users figure it out from there.