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Originally Posted by geekmaster
You can turn a Kindle off by holding the power button until the screen goes all white (about 7 seconds), then release the power button. If you hold the power button too long (more than about 20 seconds), the kindle will do a hard reset when you release the power button.
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We've discussed this before
. The "hold the power button in for 7 seconds until the screen goes blank" mode is a kind of suspend mode, with RAM still powered. The Kindle is not truly off. This is trivially demonstrated by the fact that it wakes instantly when the power switch is pressed; you don't get the "boy reading under a tree" boot screen.
But, since Amazon themselves choose to call it "turned off", I guess there's no harm in using that expression for it, even if it's not strictly speaking accurate.