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Originally Posted by gargoyle67
That's not really true is it, That e-ink uses no power unless updating the screen, How does the Kindle know a certain amount of time has passed and to then change the screen saver ? (Magic) It's a bit of a misconception that they only use power turning pages, After all if that were the case there would be no need for an On\Off button would there ? I truer statement would be that they use more power when turning\refreshing the screen and a little when idling.
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That's correct; the Kindle is in a "coma" when it's in sleep mode; it's not "dead". It's still doing background stuff like updating the clock, talking to Amazon's servers every so often (if you have 3G enabled), and so on.