Review: A necessary tool.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2010
Amazon says that the charged battery on the Kindle 3 will last for up to a week with its radio on, and up to a month with its radio off. "Up to" is an elastic phrase. I have yet to get through one day without stopping to recharge. That means that having only one charger is a large nuisance, because I am then required either to stop reading for a while or to go read where the charger is. Therefore I keep chargers in several rooms. Soon I will be spending several days in the hospital, and of course I must take a charger cord with me. Hence the order for an additional one.By the way, I do not recommend accidentally stepping on your charger. Doing so resulted in damage to the electrical plug that made it necessary to discard that charger.When possible, I do prefer to buy Kindle accessories from Kindle, and I am annoyed that the batteries for the Kindle 1 must now be bought from a secondary source. Any dealer should continue to support a product for at least ten years after it is produced. I would also greatly prefer that Kindle return the memory card capacity, which was removed from the Kindle 2 and 3. Look, guys, some of us NEED extra memory. I certainly do.