The issue surfaced on my mini-kindle vacation -- a long weekend that I spent just reading and experiencing 'the device just disappears' experience as promoted by Amazon.
Around the same time Amazon released a software upgrade which I duly installed and updated. The upgrade promised PDF compatibility and longer battery life. The PDF compatibility fell short of expectation, since it allows only change of orientation of the document on the kindle but no zooming in and out on the pdf. So if you have a file with smaller fonts (which seems to be the case with most pdfs i have) then it's quite illegible. Guess we need to wait for the next update on this.
But what I was looking forward to most was the upgrade in battery life. But I was disappointed. I had to recharge my kindle twice in 3 days.
Worse, I found that a couple of hours of reading saw the battery charge moving from 90% to 30%-- that too with wireless off. Way too fast a discharge. Especially, since Amazon claims that the Kindle should last 2 weeks with one full charge.
I am not sure what the culprit is, the upgrade or my device-- as I had not tested the Kindle out before applying the upgrade.
But since numerous searches on the new upgrade gave me no other result of anyone else facing this Kindle battery life issue, I assumed it had to be the device.
So I decided to call up the customer service numbers for help and device. More on the experience in my next post.... .
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