Amazon and Barnes & Noble Jostle Over Battery Life Figures for Nook, Kindle

destinyland writes "Amazon just doubled the reported battery life for their Kindle digital readers — but they did it by cutting the estimated daily usage in half. Monday Amazon's competitor Barnes and Noble released a new touch-screen version of their Nook reader, and C|Net notes that apparently Amazon 'took issue with how its competitor was calculating and presenting its battery life numbers.' When Barnes and Noble claimed that the Nook's charge lasted twice as long based on a half hour a day of usage, Amazon simply recalculated the Kindle's battery life using the same formula. By Wednesday, Barnes and Noble was insisting that the Nook's charge still lasted twice as long as the Kindle's. 'If that's true, then Barnes and Noble mangled the launch of their touch-screen Nook,' reports one Kindle blog, 'by botching their description of one of its main selling points.'"

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Jesus Christ.

[Futile Rhetoric]

Whoever came up with this comparison chart will be first up against a wall when the revolution comes:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/shasta/photos/image-battery-life.gif

Re:Jesus Christ.

[similar_name]

Did you know the average human can lift their own body weight (on average about 150 lbs) but I can lift 15,000 lbs*


*My strength assumes lifting one pound at a time over a one year period.


By the way, that pic should be some kind of statistical goatse. It's disgusting.

Re:How About ...

[ReptilianSamurai]

How about battery life in percentages of Libraries of Congress that can be read on a single charge?