Answers.Body: <p>This is definitely not <em>normal</em>. Most e-readers should easily work for a few weeks. If you already tried resetting your PocketBook, I don't think there's anything else you can do except for warranty repair :(</p>
  <p>Side-note about smartphones: yes, most of them can work for 1-2, or even 3 days when using them &quot;normally&quot;.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I quite recently bought a brand new PocketBook InkPad Color, having read something about &quot;a month per charge&quot;.</p>
  <p>But now I've yet again recharged it because it was almost out of power after just 1-2 days. I'd say 48 hours tops.</p>
  <p>Sure, I've used the light (on the lowest setting) when reading in the dark for a while, but not very long. And I've only opened various books in it -- not used any kind of CPU-intense game or something. (If such even exist.)</p>
  <p>I must say that I'm baffled and disappointed by how quickly the battery is drained with such minimal use.</p>
  <p>Whenever I don't use it, I press the button to make it go to sleep.</p>
  <p>Is there something wrong with my unit? I frankly can't bear returning another item in my life, so I <em>hope</em> that this is normal. But it surprises me, because I thought that even smartphones had much better battery life than this, and they do much more advanced and energy-draining things. The whole point of an &quot;e-reader&quot; is that uses a special kind of screen to use minimal battery and near-zero battery unless you actively open a book or change pages, is it not?</p>
  <p>I will say that I don't have any smartphone, and never have had one, so I don't really know how long they last, but I assume that you don't have to charge those every single day.</p>
  
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Title: Why is the battery life so bad on my new PocketBook InkPad Color?
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ThreadText: # Why is the battery life so bad on my new PocketBook InkPad Color?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-03-17)
  
  I quite recently bought a brand new PocketBook InkPad Color, having read something about "a month per charge".
  
  But now I've yet again recharged it because it was almost out of power after just 1-2 days. I'd say 48 hours tops.
  
  Sure, I've used the light (on the lowest setting) when reading in the dark for a while, but not very long. And I've only opened various books in it -- not used any kind of CPU-intense game or something. (If such even exist.)
  
  I must say that I'm baffled and disappointed by how quickly the battery is drained with such minimal use.
  
  Whenever I don't use it, I press the button to make it go to sleep.
  
  Is there something wrong with my unit? I frankly can't bear returning another item in my life, so I *hope* that this is normal. But it surprises me, because I thought that even smartphones had much better battery life than this, and they do much more advanced and energy-draining things. The whole point of an "e-reader" is that uses a special kind of screen to use minimal battery and near-zero battery unless you actively open a book or change pages, is it not?
  
  I will say that I don't have any smartphone, and never have had one, so I don't really know how long they last, but I assume that you don't have to charge those every single day.
  
  **Tags:** battery
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-04-08. Score: 1
  
  This is definitely not *normal*. Most e-readers should easily work for a few weeks. If you already tried resetting your PocketBook, I don't think there's anything else you can do except for warranty repair :(
  
  Side-note about smartphones: yes, most of them can work for 1-2, or even 3 days when using them "normally".
  
  
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