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Originally Posted by murg
The % read is known when the device is put into sleep mode, so it isn't difficult to display it. And since eInk screens consume no energy when not changing, it doesn't cost anything in terms of battery use.
The % charge however, changes while the device is asleep. Changing the display to reflect this would require additional code to monitor the battery while asleep and change the screen appropriately.
Now, it may be that the battery is already being monitored, I'm not sure if the devices will automatically power down if the battery gets low enough (for some reason I think they do).
All that being said, I'd like to see this also.
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This seems like a fairly circular logic. If sleeping doesn't consume battery life, them the % battery shouldn't change either. So you could have it display the battery life when it goes to sleep and neither would change. I'm sure that's not true or maybe even what you are trying to say. If it is true, perhaps it could refresh once daily. I assume some monitoring of the battery life is happening because it will change the screen to a charge your device screen if it gets too low. So if that's already happening, the incremental battery loss of a single page refresh is nearly inconsequential.