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Dr Dave · 02-15-2009, 07:35 PM

Actually, the issue isn't the SD card per se, but rather how much stuff you have on it. I put about 2000 books worth of stuff that I had for Palm Reader (PRC files) onto my SD card, and battery life went to about 5 hours in STANDBY mode! Battery life was 5-6 days with just the card and nothing on it. Apparently, the thing indexes CONSTANTLY if you have anything on the SD card.

I'm fighting with Amazon now over this issue, since the damned SD card slot is just about useless if you can't put things on it. Amazon tech support's response is "That's why we came out with the Kindle 2"--to me this is akin to GM or Ford saying that if the engine on your 2008 car just ups and dies after 5 hours of driving even when the gas tank is still ful, then you need to buy a 2009 model which gets better mileage (i.e., complete and utter babbling BS). Another of their brilliant suggestions has been to leave the SD card out of the slot until you need it, which would be fine except that you need to put it in to read the book of off of it, and if you remove the card it starts immediately begins re-indexing again once you insert it, thus chewing up the battery life again. I'm sure the next thing they will suggest is that I buy multiple extra batteries and keep them charged (i.e., we're supposed to shell out even more money for a bad design on their part--this is even more fun since the only way you can charge a battery is to insert it into you Kindle, either tieing you to a wall socket or making your device unusable until you're charged all the batteries.)

I AM NOT IMPRESSED.

02-15-2009, 07:35 PM	#7
Dr Dave Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle	Battery Life with Kindle Actually, the issue isn't the SD card per se, but rather how much stuff you have on it. I put about 2000 books worth of stuff that I had for Palm Reader (PRC files) onto my SD card, and battery life went to about 5 hours in STANDBY mode! Battery life was 5-6 days with just the card and nothing on it. Apparently, the thing indexes CONSTANTLY if you have anything on the SD card. I'm fighting with Amazon now over this issue, since the damned SD card slot is just about useless if you can't put things on it. Amazon tech support's response is "That's why we came out with the Kindle 2"--to me this is akin to GM or Ford saying that if the engine on your 2008 car just ups and dies after 5 hours of driving even when the gas tank is still ful, then you need to buy a 2009 model which gets better mileage (i.e., complete and utter babbling BS). Another of their brilliant suggestions has been to leave the SD card out of the slot until you need it, which would be fine except that you need to put it in to read the book of off of it, and if you remove the card it starts immediately begins re-indexing again once you insert it, thus chewing up the battery life again. I'm sure the next thing they will suggest is that I buy multiple extra batteries and keep them charged (i.e., we're supposed to shell out even more money for a bad design on their part--this is even more fun since the only way you can charge a battery is to insert it into you Kindle, either tieing you to a wall socket or making your device unusable until you're charged all the batteries.) I AM NOT IMPRESSED.