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Originally Posted by HarryT
It was certainly ill-informed. Whether or not the person was deliberately and knowingly lying to you, I'll leave to your judgement. The screen uses no power while it's displaying a static image, but the Reader is a computer and, like any other computer, the CPU, RAM, etc, all use power.
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Hi Harry, if they were ill informed you better let Sony know!
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Originally Posted by Sony
Due to the nature of the E Ink electronic display technology, the LCD can retain an image without having power. Turning the page is the only time power is consumed. If the Reader's power is drained, the LCD will retain the last image that was displayed, thus making it appear like the Reader is frozen and in some instances it will not have enough power to perform other operations such as turning on or off.
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http://support.sony-europe.com/compu...S-600&f=PA_PRS
Straight from the beasts mouth itself. Someone is wrong here... and since I'm a computer scientist, the only way that the buttons can work is via interupts which of course require power. Unless Sony has invented the most amazing electrical device ever!
I would be suprised if putting it into sleep mode caused a significant battery drain. It's well known that lithium ion batteries shouldn't be stored in a fully charged state (around 40% off the top of my head is best) for long term, but a couple of weeks shouldn't make much of a difference, especially on a device such as this.
I wouldn't be suprised if this wasn't a software issue much alike to the iPhone battery issue first generation iPhone 3G customers had.