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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM
Which are those?
And why do they stay on all the time? Isn't that a waste of battery? I'm quite certain my eBook is off when I turn it off.
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Sony Reader is "always on" unless you engage a complete shut down. After that, it takes about 40 seconds to start up and it eats up a lot of energy.
When you use a power button on Sony Reader (and Kindle I think), you put it into "hold" mode. It clears the screen and makes it impossible to use buttons, otherwise it keeps on running as usual. Any ebook reader, AFAIK, continues to use battery and runs in between page turns. It just doesn't need any power to keep up the text on the screen, but it needs energy to run the OS on the background, so each time time you press on the button "next page", it takes only 1 second to turn the pages vs. 40-45 seconds
