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Originally Posted by moffattm
Yes, books are just data, but I think the thinking was that if the book was poorly formatted then the Kobo might have trouble processing it and may even get itself caught in a loop which might use lots of processing power and thus battery.
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Then it would not be able to enter sleep mode. The processor cannot be in a loop during sleep mode (nor turned off for that matter).
Anyway, more tellingly, if what you proposed was the case, then, when the suspect book was tried on another unit with the same firmware, it would exhibit the same behaviour - and it doesn't. The reverse, has also been demonstrated - known good books cause bad battery life on "suspect" readers.
There has been a lot of confusion also, and I see people assuming reliability and more importantly, linearity, when taking battery readings, when actually, battery meters are notoriously the opposite. It's hard to weed out the chaff from the grain, but the truth is in there somewhere
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