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Originally Posted by JSWolf
And if you cannot jailbreak the Kindle, then eventually, the battery stops working well enough and you end up with an expensive paperweight.
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That happens in any case. You cannot turn off the battery circuit in *any* device with a lithium-ion battery, and that circuit is powered from the battery it monitors. This is because if the battery circuit loses state, it has to switch the battery into a low-power charge mode that can take days to recover enough charge to power the battery circuit again. It's that or you are in the land of 'venting with flame'.
This is not Amazon. This is battery chemistry, and safety. Batteries are small controlled bombs, and need dynamic monitoring. That monitoring consumes power continuously. -- and even if it didn't, batteries self-discharge, so even if the battery circuit did not exist, the battery would *still* go down on its own. Is the rate at which it would go down noticeably higher because of the draw from the Kindle's components? Search me, but you cannot assume that it is.
I'd be fascinated to see if your Kobo worked if you took it off the shelf after five years without use, but I'll bet the answer is "no". I don't see you complaining about that.