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Originally Posted by omro
Having had a Bebook, albeit briefly, it seems to only use power when the page was turned.
Can you bring up a page of text and the DR will display that indefinitely with no real power drain or will it always use up some battery while it's on? Or is this a future firmware upgrade?
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Just agreeing with what other's already mentioned. The current behavior of the DR is that it keeps running all the time. You're right, that's definitely not ideal with eInk technology, but they probably ran into a deadline with the development.
They originally released the DR without any power management functionality, which is what you're talking about (going into standby/sleep in between page turns). They're adding that in firmware 1.5, which supposedly will be released by the end of this year. That may slip a little bit (releases from iRex tend to run late), but I would expect it sometime in January at the latest.