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Originally Posted by afv011
I seldom have wifi on, even if the wifi chip is in sleep mode, it will use some battery, especially when you are far from the access point, or away, when it may be scanning periodically. I only turn it on when I need it, to browser the store. It is easy enough to toggle and the savings are there.
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Supposedly you have a couple of weeks even if wifi is on all the time. At least in this exploratory phase of my relationship with Nook, I just leave it on. But since I don't plan to shop very much with B&N, and there's nothing else you can do with it, I'll probably turn it off by default once I'm settled in.
But if B&N would only add content delivery by email capability (like Kindle), I'd definitely use that and leave wifi on all of the time. It's a very useful feature, particularly in conjunction with things like Instapaper and browser plugins designed to grab content for later reading on another device. It might benefit B&N sales since 'wifi on' means 'ready to shop'. (But assuming that this would be treated the same as side-loaded content, they'd have add the ability to delete side-loaded content on the device.)