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Originally Posted by HarryT
I must respectfully disagree with you. A resistive touch screen is a completely "inert" component, in the sense that, like a button, it doesn't actively need power to operate it; rather, it signals the operating system when it has been activated by making an electrical contact. The reason that some devices have much longer "stand-by" battery lives than other depends on all sorts of different factors, primarily the battery capacity and how far "asleep" the device really is. A Sony PRS-600, for example, does little more than blank the screen and disable most of the buttons when it's in standby mode; the CPU and operating system are still running. The BeBook Mini, on the other hand, appears to almost entirely shut down, hence its exceptional stand-by battery life.
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Not talking about stand-by... I have let it run, not on stand-by, for months, this winter... (I only put it on stand-by if I take it with me, in my bag, and during the winter months, I let it stay at home)