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Originally Posted by PeterT
there is no hope at all of the underlying operating system doing a clean shutdown which will probably lead to file system corruption add some point.
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On the other hand, an ebook reader most of the time, operates in read-only mode. Reading books does not change them, there are no open documents that need saving, there are no processes that create new files that have yet to be written - well, unless you shut it off during a database update.
Even reading progress which is constantly recorded, should just update an entry in a database, storage space for which is already allocated so it's not a problem when viewing from the filesystem layer.
Compared to a desktop PC where there are always dozens of things running (like Thunderbird regularly grabbing your new [spam] mails in the background) there is just not that much risk of corruption on an eBook reader.
If you were really worried about it, you could mod it to mount all filesystems in sync mode. This is slow but does not corrupt easily/at all.
If you want a clean shutdown, you could do it via telnet shell. I have not tested it right now but if I remember correctly, if you just kill nickel it will also no longer update the screen when you shut it down / poweroff. That would work w/o opening the device..