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Originally Posted by birdbrainbb
A Kindle's not a television, though. TVs don't run off of batteries like Kindle do.  Surely turning a Kindle all the way off conserves battery life, even if it's just a little bit? Or am I wrong about that? |
Yes, the "off" state conserves battery life, just as, or maybe more than, the screensaver state.
It's not the same sort of "off" as you get with a computer, because you don't have to boot it up from the off state. Just slide the button, and it wakes just as from screensaver mode.
I don't know why some say not to turn it off - perhaps it's legacy advice that applied to previous models?
But the Kindle 3 documentation lists the instructions for turning your Kindle Off (with a 7 second slide) right next to the instructions sleeping it.
There is nothing in there, or anywhere else from Amazon I can find, about either choice being preferred.
I like to use the Off method, because that way, I can disable the screensaver.
