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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Oh and HarryT, no offence, but I do not believe for a second that Kindles battery won't suffer after a month on sleep even if the device does not drain any. I am not aware of any battery type that won't lose charge if left laying around doing absolutely nothing - rechargables are even worse than alkalines from my own experience.
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Certainly there'll be a small discharge - as you say, any lithium battery will discharge over time - but I speak from practical experience here. I have both a Kindle Touch and an older Kindle 3 which, since I bought the Touch, I now rarely use. It's probably been a good month now since I used it but, turning it on now, the battery gauge shows the same level I remember it being at when I last used it. There must, as you very rightly say, have been some small loss of charge, but it is only small.
At the end of the day, though, battery life is really not a concern with any eInk device; they all have superb battery life compared with any rival technology. As you say, who cares if you have to charge it once a week, or once a month?