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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Your best bet would be to set up a kindle and check your battery time.
1. No matter the router, you will have to have the wifi on.
Do you have a test kindle to see if your program will work?
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Right, I will need Wifi on all the time. And yep, I have a Kindle Touch (same model as I'm proposing using).
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Originally Posted by knc1
I do not mean idle, I do mean asleep for the other 9 hours.
Keep in mind, the Kindles have a meta-stable display - -
they do not have to be running for the display to continue showing what was last written to it.
That might be the point you overlooked when you thought the device was running while displaying a book page.
"meta-stable" == does not require refresh
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Oh, so this definitely is new information to me! I understand that the display doesn't take any electricity except when changing its image, but I didn't understand that the device is completely asleep between changing book pages. I thought it was idling and only went to sleep when the screen saver kicked in. (Assume an unmodified Kindle here). If that's the case, how does the touchscreen and home button work when reading, but don't after the screen saver comes on. If they use the same power and there isn't a sleep mode where things are more powered down, it seems like you'd want to be able to use the touchscreen or home button to wake up the device. Is that just a UI decision Amazon decided to make?
Secondly, when is it not asleep then? I haven't jailbroken my kindle, but I assumed I could SSH into anytime after I "turned it on" but before the screen saver kicked in (even with a book image on display). If sleeping I couldn't, right? Is that wrong too? Or maybe I am misunderstanding your distinction between idle and asleep?
Thanks again for the help here, guys. (I keep saying that, but I mean it!)