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Old 07-31-2012, 01:39 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
What you say in your spoiler is true, and is extreme important for high-power devices like laptops, but it's pretty irrelevant for a Kindle. The "ageing with time" effect swamps the "ageing with charge cycles" one.

A typical lithium battery will last something like 5 years, purely due to ageing as the result of time. If you recharge it once a month, in that 5 years it will only have gone through 60 charge cycles, which is insignificant.

It's the complete opposite with a laptop, where the number of charge cycles does dominate.
Regarding the kindle, that is true ONLY if you recharge it when it shows a low battery (once a month or so). But if you make a habit of recharging it EVERY NIGHT"regularly" as Pookeysgirl said, then the recharge cycles can become much more dominant (unless the recharge algorithm is smart enough to just do a "top off" trickle charge). The battery longevity determinants are a bit complex, but I would not recommend leaving it plugged into a wall charger except when you want to recharge it because it showed a low battery (especially not every night).

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