Comments on: Lists http://anuradha.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/lists/ Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:34:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: drac http://anuradha.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/lists/#comment-382 Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:44:37 +0000 http://anuradha.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/lists/#comment-382 Well, yes. But these days I just read for around half an hour or so before I go to sleep – so not a great deal of usage.

So I guess that’s generally a battery life of about 10-15 hours with the backlight on medium? I’ve found that autoscroll really kills the battery quick – so I just mapped the keys to pgup/pgdown and “turn the pages” myself. Put another way, I generally have enough juice in the battery to last me on a flight from the UK to SL.

Heh. I’m interested in the e-ink stuff that is being demoed now, even if it is made by Sony :) The backlight is the only dealbreaker, honestly – since I do read in lowlight/darkness. The anti-Sony thing is mostly because I refuse to buy their proprietary memory cards.

]]> By: Anuradha Weeraman http://anuradha.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/lists/#comment-380 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:53:37 +0000 http://anuradha.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/lists/#comment-380 The battery life has been acceptable so far for maintaining my small and generally unassuming lists.

But you’re the type who prefer to read on a PDA I see, so the backlight factor comes into play. I’d rather use my Sony Reader for that. No backlight, which is a big bonus and the battery life can’t be beat. I know we have differing views on that :)

Btw, this three weeks of battery life you mentioned, is that including all the reading time??

]]> By: drac http://anuradha.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/lists/#comment-379 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:16:44 +0000 http://anuradha.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/lists/#comment-379 Funny that. I would have bought a SJ30 ages ago (when it was reasonably top of the range) if it were made by anyone else but Sony :)

You forgot the battery life. My trusty non-new-fangled Palm OS PDA gives me about 3 weeks worth of use before a recharge.

Weasel Reader ftw. There is also something called iSilo which is err.. non-free.

Can I also interest you in Bejewelled, Bridge and err.. Memory? When I don’t have the patience to play chess on the PDA (because face it, the chess apps on the PDA are pretty horrible), I usually pull out one of those.

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