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EDIT: It would be interesting to know how many poor battery life issues are due to the user leaving their device in an ON state all the time? In the ON state does the Kobo Reader draw enough power to noticeably drain the battery? I leave mine on all the time, and was under the impression that the Reader wasn't drawing any battery power while I left it unattended.
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Because of the pretty poor (reported) accuracy of the onboard battery gauge, coupled with the fact that it only seems to update on system boot, its pretty tough for me to guess at this from just general usage. Short of me opening my Kobo and playing around with an oscilloscope, I have no way to make an accurate guess :/
From an electronics engineering perspective, I know there has been a lot of effort to reduce "standby power", and modern microprocessors and integrated systems can be very efficient in idle states through various methods. How 'smart' is the Kobo in this regard? I haven't a clue.
It could very well be the case that your usage is the way to go, giving you longer use on a charge then the people that turn it on/off too often. My reading pattern lately have been pretty sporadic, and I've been playing around with Calibre and such, so I've been plugging my Kobo in pretty often for short periods, so I can't make judgments from my experiences just yet :/