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Originally Posted by Piper_
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.  |
Yeah, I was wondering if the "don't turn off" thing was from a previous version of the Kindle, because all I could find about it through Google was for Kindle 1 and 2 (and one random blogger for Kindle 3). One post somewhere said that turning your Kindle off was like pulling the plug out from your computer without booting it down first-- but they were talking about the Kindle 2. With the Kindle 3 it does seem like it's just waking up from a longer sleep, no problems with remembering the last page I was on, etc. like apparently Kindle 2 had? And then there's nothing about on/off problems in the documentation for 3, like you said. Hence my confusion, haha.
Anyway, I don't need anything desperately enough to leave Whispernet on overnight, so I just turn it off. Just depends on the person and what you want, like duckeedoug said.