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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's true, but it's not the main reason that the Reader consumes battery charge when swiched off; it does that because it never actually is switched off - the operating system continues to run, consuming power, even when the power switch is "off".
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Precisely my complaint. They should have provided the ability to power off the reader. Instead, the "off" switch puts the reader in "standby" mode. 7000 page turns is a theoretical maximum which ignores the power draw of the OS and is probably not possible
under normal use. It is misleading to advertise 7000 page turns.
The OS is really slow to boot and I assume this is due to the deliberate choice of a slow processor to limit power consumption. So it seems power consumption was a design consideration. It's too bad there is no way, short of pulling the battery, to stop power drain when the reader is not in use. So much for 7000 page turns when I'm away from a wall socket
--dyspepsic