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Originally Posted by j.p.s
There is no provision for the Amazon Kindle to be completely shut off. The only thing different about holding the switch a few seconds is the the screen goes blank instead of to an image. If it were actually off, the Kindle would need to boot up, which would take much longer than waking up from sleep. That does not happen. It wakes up from the blank screen just as fast as from the sleep screens.
After I got my Pocketbook 360 and Kindle DXG, I pretty much stopped using my Kindle 2. I started shutting it down to the blank screen, but the battery ran down just as quickly as when it was only put to sleep.
Then I saw this thread, which shows that "power off" for Kindle is really the same as "sleep".
http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/r...x1MY2ISK92QX3H |
That's interesting. Of course, I hadn't thought of the fact that it would have to boot up like a computer if it were completely off. So it's a matter of either having a screensaver or not
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It is never better to completely drain the battery. It is also OK to stop charging before the battery is completely recharged.
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You answered a question I had meant to ask, about whether it's OK to unhook it before it was done charging.
Bergette