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Originally Posted by oldyellr
LauraPony and Haesslich, exactly why were or are you not turning off your Vox when you're not using it? Is it because you're too impatient to wait the 30-odd seconds for it to boot in case you decide you need it on the spur of the moment? It's not like a PC with spinning mechanical hard drives that may sustain more wear from repeated starting and stopping. I turn off my Vox when I'm not using it, but you can tell the Green Police that my PCs have been running 24/7 for decades.
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Sleep mode only - full power off is wasteful with the battery as it has to ramp the CPU to full to boot up and run everything to get the Kobo going (the launcher, background processes) everything versus keeping the system RAM powered and the CPU idling. Airplane mode to turn off the Wifi, or I turn it off in wifi settings.
It doesn't need to spin up disks, but it DOES have to do a lot to get the system going - more so than just keeping power to the CPU and RAM, especially as it doesn't ave to worry about spinning disk platters. Plus, to emphasize yawar's example, do you REALLY want to effectively walk into your library, unlock the bookcase, pull a book out, then go through all the steps every time you set your book down, when you go to read? Or do you keep it at hand and flip it open? There's a reason that these default to sleep mode, just as your phone does - you don't have to go through the full shut down and startup process each time, nor should you have to, especially just to read a book, browse the web, or answer a phone call in the case of a phone. You just pick it up and go.