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Originally Posted by CRoss
I just turned my Kindle all the way off after bookmarking and going to the Home screen and I had no trouble returning to my bookmarked page. Very weird that not only are some people having this problem but that Amazon seems to think it's normal.
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It's no doubt one of the power mgmt trade-offs made. Writing to memory takes more power than reading, so avoiding doing so extends the battery life. The only downside is if the unit crashes, it doesn't remember your place. Or if you insist on turning the blasted thing off - which you'll notice all the manuals have always discouraged. The only reason to turn it off is if an anal airline employee forces you to do so (since the possibility of it interfering when you have whispernet off is about the same as your watch (much less than the engines themselves or the actual wiring of the plane itself) or your phone once it's in airplane mode. Saving that tiny bit of power may seem silly, but it could easily account for a 5% increase in battery life.
I have both - last night the K1 locked up when I tried to change pages. After a full reset (push in the tiny button under battery cover), when I went back to the book, I was placed about 6 pages before where I left off. So the K1 also doesn't update the MBP file on every page change. I suspect it does when you jump "back" somewhere (I had recently jumped to the TOC, went to another chapter, then jumped back twice to get back to the original location, then read along just before it locked up), as well as go back to the menu.