Thread: Changing font use more battery life?
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Old 02-22-2010, 05:21 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by Cactusgod View Post
I never thought about this, and it doesnt really seem possible, but my question is...if I change the font of an epub book using calibre, does the rendering of that new font take up more battery life? I'm not talking about if like...the font has a few extra pixels with some letters, but I mean...is there a significant degradation in battery life when using a font other than the default? say like, georgia or one of my favorites..Fontin

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Great question (and probably very difficult to validate).
Retrieval from storage (Program ROM vs Flash Drive) would possibly cause a very tiny difference.

The act of changing the display font size (and all the computing needed to re-flow) would consume more than a static font used throughout the document.
The different number of total screens viewed to complete the document would consume different power amounts.
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