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Originally Posted by cmdahler
I just wonder what on earth the thing is doing in the background that is eating up that battery power to begin with. It takes no battery power to maintain a screen in a static state, so just about the only thing that ought to be operating in the background is the system time. My Sony 505 will sit there static, page displayed, for a week before it uses a bar of battery, so given the level of usage you described, it's disconcerting to me that the DR800 would have even one bar gone by that point. What on earth is it doing?
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It could be doing background indexing of the loaded content for the search operation. The kindle does this and if you load up a lot of content at once you'll see your battery consumption take a hit.