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Old 04-05-2014, 09:58 AM   #35
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Also, do you think my idea to run a looping python script in the background will be fine?

I can't see why it would do any harm, since I could always ssh in and kill it if I needed to.
It will greatly shorten your "on-battery time".
As a general rule, you only have 4 to 8 hours of battery capacity.

If you normally keep your Kindle on external power, not a problem.

A better plan is to have either manually triggered (say, a KUAL button) or an event driven (say, "going to screensaver") script.
Those should let the processor shut down when it normally does (about 96% of the time, it is stopped - that is where the "months" between recharges comes from - it isn't "on").
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