[Firmware 1.4] How many page turns are you getting

[Orochi]

I'm not really counting page turns, but I read for a minimum 1hr every day and I still haven't charged my Kobo since day one of the update!

Think I'm going to plug it it now, but I still have about 1/5 charge showing on the battery meter.

[Bismar]

Got a exchange for my kobo and read approximately 3600 pages over 3 days on the brand new kobo, before the charge message came up.

Not at all satisfied with this.

[HamsterRage]

Originally Posted by HamsterRage

I decided to charge mine up the other night, then log the books that I can read before it runs out. Then figure the Kobo page turns.

Ran out today. So almost 20 days since I charged it. Something approaching 3000 page turns. Lots of boot cycles.

[zero10]

Our Kobo is at approximately 1800 page turns and still shows ~2/3 battery left. Given that it has been powered off and on about every 25-30 pages (we use it to read our daughter to sleep) I am pretty impressed. The old firmware barely made it to 300 pages this way so this is more than a 6x improvement for us

[Rothbardian]

Originally Posted by HamsterRage

Really? 8000 page turns is about 20-30 typical novels on the smallest font. That's a hell of a lot of reading, and I'd suspect that for most people would take more than 2 weeks to complete - and 2 weeks was the other half of the advertising on the battery life.

From the "How many books do you read...?" thread in one of the other forums, it looks fair to say that most people are reading under 100 books a year, or at most 4 books every two weeks. That's still going to be well under the 3000 page turns Bismar got.

So I'm struggling to see how a mere 3000 pages would be a make-it-or-break-it issue for anyone, since that would mean having to plug the unit in for a few hours every three weeks or so. Especially when, if you're reading that much, you'll have to plug it in to sideload the books onto it in the first place.

FWIW, I just counted: in the 12 months to today, I've read 37 books totalling 14925 pages (real, paper pages, not Kobo screensful—only counting what I read for pleasure), or 622 pages every two weeks. On PDFs, where I have them (can't compare epub; no idea if the power drain is the same, better, or worse for PDF vs. epub), it seems to require about 4-5 page-turns per physical page, so call it just shy of 3000 page turns every 2 weeks, if I read them as PDFs. But——I read in bursts: get through several books, then read nothing much for a month or more, etc., not smoothly, so I'd at least double that to account for the peaks. So IF I read everything on the Kobo (which is never going to happen), and IF I cared about running for two weeks at a time between charges (which is also highly unlikely), then getting much less than 7–8000 page turns per two weeks could in fact be a problem.

[terifili]

Well I finally did a real test and am getting almost 3500, maybe 4000, warning to charge never came up, but it has been on it's last juice for awhile now...

[terifili]

Originally Posted by Bismar

Got a exchange for my kobo and read approximately 3600 pages over 3 days on the brand new kobo, before the charge message came up.

Not at all satisfied with this.

That's too bad that you are not satisfied. I feel like a 4 book (roughly 3600 pages) cycle in between charges is pretty fantastic overall. Not sure any other ereader gets more than that...

The 8000 page turns they claim is if you sit there and press the page turn button over and over without powerdown (I would imagine)....

[zoran]

Have to say that I almost take more attention to the battery
status than to the book I actually read. It is distracting, in
fact. Linear status jumps like a jumping champion, not rela-
ted to any usage. First charge was completed with firmware
upgrade and adding of books, followed by one hour proces-
sing. With that I was able to read 1.5 regular book (about
380 real pages, in 3 steps). New charge has another 1.5 book,
and the status icon shows less than half. A lot of power ons
and offs. A lot of looking how much battery was left. I suspect
I will be fine with 2 books of those 380 real pages (why all
those books are at 380?). My question is: is it or-or state?
8000 clicks or 2 weeks? 2 weeks of what? Reading or simply
2 weeks?
Just as a lot of other posters, I'm not sure if my device is ok.
Works fine, looks fine, just that battery indicator makes me
mad.

[twokobos]

When I first got my Kobo I opened a bunch of preoloaded books, then decided I didn't want them all I'm Reading. I didn't get the concept of going to the last chapter, so I labouriously clicked through every page of each book. I drained that battery like lightening. I figure I got about 1500 clicks before it died stone cold.

More recently I took my Kobo on vacation, fully charged, read 5 books, never charged the device & returned with life still left.

Okay, maybe 8000 pages is like 50km/l hybrid car claims, but I'm satisfied.

[m_bisson]

I get noticeably more when I "power off" as opposed to letting it go into sleep mode.

[SandysConnected]

3d0g, thanks for all the research!

~Sandy, Community Manager at ShesConnected.com

[omahawildcat]

Is there anyone that reads 8000 pages and thats it?
The 8000 pages would have to be without connecting to wifi and updating the ereader and probably very limited moving around in the menu.

[omahawildcat]

I don't get more then a week on a charge if I read every night or if I don't read at all. I definitely don't get anywhere near 500 page turns on a charge.