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Originally Posted by Psyke
one of the problems was that the 1.7 firmware was waking the Kobo from sleep and turning on the wi-fi to check for updates to newspapers and magazines, and it was doing so often (although I'm not sure how often); if you're not subscribed, do make sure it is shut off so that it doesn't wake it anymore. with the recent firmware update, it's only supposed to check once a day, although if it doesn't find anything, it will check every hour until it does, If I remember what JC had said. Obviously if you don't have subscriptions, it's much better to keep it off.
cheers!
Steph S.
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Yup, I've got no magazines or newspaper subscriptions on my reader so am keeping the wifi turned off (only reason I got the wifi over the standard version was the increased page turn speed and the possibility of a better eink display, mostly the page turn speed.) I prefer my magazines in handy dandy bathroom sized paper format (Thanks to the various deal websites I subscribe to some 17 magazines at this point from $2 to $5 a year so more would just be overkill
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As promised the feedback on #2 reader: Under almost identical circumstances as my first kobo wifi reader, the second reader is showing an infinitely better battery life (using a combination of sleep and power off and reading 1.5 books in the last 24 hrs the battery is still showing full charge), so I'm willing to believe the first unit just had a weird battery. So to me the Wifi version rates an A
