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Originally Posted by HarryT
"Get all the chemicals stirred up"? I don't mean to be impolite, but this is utter nonsense. You should never, ever, take a lithium battery down to zero charge. If you do, it will be dead. Luckily, the circuitry in devices which use such batteries will prevent you from doing so.
You keep saying this, but I haven't heard it anywhere else. Do you have a link to support what you're claiming, please?
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Here is one link to the 3D / 2D comparisons:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~ssegro...atteries.shtml
There are many more links if you google it.
Here is one link to the 80% after 3 years of use:
http://gemini-lights.com/explore/how...um-ion-battery
Here is the link recommending draining a Lithium battery to near zero and then give it a full charge:
http://www.wikihow.com/Calibrate-an-iPod-Battery
Of course, that is only for the first cycle. After that it does not matter. Plus, if you use GSam Battery Monitor on the KFHD7-32, the stock battery icon is overridden by the GSam Percentage Number Icon so calibration is unnecessary.
Actually, all this is IRRELEVANT for most of us. We buy a new Kindle EVERY YEAR so battery longevity will never be a factor at all. Thus, charge every hour or every month and it really does not matter. I have never owned a gadget more than 4 years - NEVER.
If a Kindle battery fails in the first month, just send it back to Amazon for a no questions asked replacement. Their overall warrenty is one year.
Plus, all this "logic" will be irrelevant once the new 3D batteries will be used, maybe even in the new kindles later this year. Their operation will be totally different than the 2D batteries. Its even possible that the 3D batteries will come with a numeric battery icon like the GSam one.
I'd be very curious, does anyone on this Forum use any eReader over 4 years old on a regular basis?