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Old 01-30-2009, 09:58 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The screen doesn't consume power, but the CPU, memory, etc, certainly do, just as they do on any other computer.
There presumably is some power drain between page turns, but it is tiny on the Hanlin/BeBook. I'm not sure whether anyone has had the patience to perform the "iRex DR1000S killer" test on a Hanlin - turn on the device and then do nothing until it runs out of juice. At one point this took about 5 hours on a DR1000S. My guess is that it would take ~3 weeks on the Hanlin. This is moot if you are a heavy reader, except that there is no reason to routinely turn off the device and it is instantly available when you want to use it.
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