Thread: Maximizing battery life on your device
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Old 12-29-2017, 07:18 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
Since it is mostly of academic value, here is the biggest energy saving of them all that you missed:
0) disconnect the battery.
I used to hang out in a notebook forum where one of the most common questions was how to extend the life of the battery. They were more talking about overall life rather than runtime, but, all the suggestions really come down: don't use it. With the most common being to take it out of the laptop.

And that always seemed pointless to me. You are spending a lot of money on a portable computer, and then you are making not portable.

After a bit of research, and my own use over the years, my advice became:

Just use it. Anything you can do to extend the life of the battery is inconvenient, means you can't use it or doesn't have that much affect. Charge it when you can, run on battery when you want to and enjoy the freedom of not worrying about it.

And that's basically the case here. There is absolutely nothing in the first post that I want to do. I use the WiFi, so I want it on. The point of getting a frontlit ereader was to have a built-in light. And I adjust the level frequently based on what feels right at the time. Touch screens are wonderful (but I haven't used an ereader with button outside a shop). I use the dictionary, but not as much as I use the annotations. I suppose I do use simple epubs, but that's because I want to make sure they work and clean the code up while still trying to keep the style the creator was after.

To me, the instructions in the first post are: "Buy an expensive device and then don't use any of its best features."

And thinking about point 5, if the compressed formats are so bad, why wasn't the suggestion to rezip them with zero compression? That should be a faster, use less CPU and hence less battery.
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