eReader Part VI - A Slight problem

I ran into my first negative experience with the Sony eReader. Do you know the part of books that really makes them amazing? The climax and the subsequent rapid descent to the conclusion. With fun mysteries this is often just the last chapter or last few pages. With good novels this is often the last twenty pages. With great novels, like Edgar Sawtelle this is the last hundred pages. Which brings us to our dilemma: Sony claims that the eReader can go 7,500 page turns on a single charge. That is amazing! But, way off the mark! I'm in Vermont, away for the weekend with a fully charged Sony and Edgar Sawtelle and I'm devoid of laptop, internet, and USB charging cable (it is Vermont...right?), and I just crested the beginning of the climax with one hundred pages to go to ride this gem of a book into the beach - when bam! eReader informs me I am low on batttery and ten pages later, with me grasping for more as the story cranks up the pace, the screen goes dead. I started with a full charge and I set the font large giving me 1527 pages to read continuously over the weekend from start to finish of the novel. Now, here it is Sunday morning, great reading ahead, no way to recharge and no other reading material. Sony clearly overstated their claim that you can turn 7,500 pages. In the fine print it does claim that battery life varies with usage and I'd be happy to except somewhere in the range of 5,000 plus - but less than 1,500? A bummer, truly. A standard, wall AC adapter is probably in my future - and really should be included in the box. But for now, Edgar will have to wait until tomorrow and much to my Father's pleasure...I'm headed to the store to pick up the Sunday New York Times...