IBook App Draining Battery on iPad

Has anyone had the problem of their battery going low fast, when reading books on the iPad with this app or any e-reader app. It seems that my goes down at least 5-10% within the hour of reading. My iPad is the 64GB w/3G and I all ways make sure that the Wi-Fi and 3G are off when reading and the funny thing is that then battery life hardly changes when I'm watching a 2 hour movie!

I have this same issue - I was reading in iBooks on my lunch break and then left the app running in the background. I had my phone in my pocket and could feel it was heating up much more than usual and when I checked it around four p.m. (it was fully charged that same morning), the battery was down to 6% (Edit: usually around that time my battery would be down to about 60-70%). No other apps were running and as soon as I shut down the app the battery was going at a regular pace again and starting to cool down.
It's understandable that when open it would use up the battery, what with having the screen on all the time and turning the pages, but I find it odd that it's such a power guzzler even when in the background. Now I'll know to turn it off when I'm done reading, but it's still definitely something that's not working optimally.

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