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Originally Posted by pokee
Why does anyone even turn the power off? Does powering your Kobo off really save the battery life? I let mine sleep all the time (haven't tried powering off even once), and everything seems fine except a problem I've had with showing an incorrect % read when sleeping. My battery only lasted a week on its first charge, so maybe I should be powering off instead of sleeping?
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Battery life is increased dramatically by shutting it off, at least in my experience. Previous to the last two weeks, I had been just letting it go to sleep, and I'd get about a week of battery power while reading well under the number of pages they say I should be able to.
Over the last two weeks, I've faithfully shut down the kobo instead of going to sleep, and when I've had some downtime, I've been either reading, or just cycling through pages of a book, to get the as many pages as I could through. So far, the the charge has lasted over 10 days (11 days and counting), and I've been able to cycle at least 4000 page turns. The battery is coming close to requiring a recharge however, so I'm sure I won't get the number of page turns they say I should (between 8K and 10K), but it's at least lasting past the number of days they mentioned.
Once I've charged up again, I'm going to try going back to the sleep mode and see if there's been an improvement, but I'm not expecting it; The kobo is running power when it goes into sleep mode, however minimal it may be, there is still a drain. while I can get get close to two weeks with it powered off, I'm not expecting it in sleep mode anymore.
cheers!
Steph S.