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Originally Posted by barryem
On an e-ink screen I'm not sure they're so nice and, if anything, they're detrimental. Not a lot, but at least a little bit, since the only time screens draw power is when they're changed. Screensavers add a few seemingly unneeded changes. Actually I don't know that they're unneeded since there might be some concern with e-ink burn-in, but I've never heard that there is so my guess is it's purely ornamental.
What I think would be ideal would be to simply leave the text on the screen, as it was when the device went to sleep. Perhaps the word "Sleeping" could appear unobtrusively in the bottom margin. Then when I'm ready to read I can just pick up the device and begin reading as it turns on. The word "Sleeping" could go away to let me know it was on.
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The primary purpose of the "screensaver" on a device like the Kindle is simply to give you a visual indication that the device is asleep, and that nothing is going to happen until you press the "power" switch (not that it is actually a power switch, of course - it's a "wake-up" switch).