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Old 11-08-2010, 05:33 AM   #31
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Do you power it off or just put it to sleep during take-off and landing when you're on board an aircraft?
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Old 11-08-2010, 05:47 AM   #32
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And then I don't know why turning it off would be BAD for it (unplugging a TV isn't bad for it, just weird, if we're still using that metaphor).
Actually, depending on the TV and how it's designed, turning it off can be bad for it. I used to work as a TV engineer for a Bang & Olufsen dealer, and we found that we got quite a few LX 2500 in for repair once they got to be about five years old. It turned out that B&O didn't expect people to unplug them (apparently in continental Europe, very few people ever unplug TVs, but in the UK, most people unplug them overnight) and after about five years, the power supply would die due to the extra strain involved in powering it up from cold. B&O supplied a repair kit that upgraded the power supply, so we were able to repair them without any trouble, and future models were designed to be able to cope with being unplugged.
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Old 11-08-2010, 05:59 AM   #33
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Do you power it off or just put it to sleep during take-off and landing when you're on board an aircraft?
just turn off the wifi and 3G would be sufficient.. me think
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Old 11-08-2010, 08:50 AM   #34
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I never turn mine off, ever.
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Old 11-08-2010, 12:20 PM   #35
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Imo turning it off doesn't help it any. When its displaying the screensaver (and wireless is off) its not doing anything (unless you've added a lot of books, but it will index those sometime)
Turning it off forces it to boot up, which takes a lot of power as the processor is taxed fully, just waking up from sleep is like turning a page

Turning it off "might" be usefull if you're not going to touch it for a long time (read: weeks) although I've had mine on sleep mode for a week or two and it was still pretty fully charged.
Not on the Kindle 3, it doesn't. I agree that would be a bad idea, if it were true.

Again, and I'll bold it so it doesn't get overlooked again the sort of "off" you get with a 7 second hold is barely distinguishable from sleep.

The only thing I notice is the lack of a screen saver.


Y'all might want to try the 7 second hold to see what it actually does. It's nowhere near the same as turning off a computer.


It wakes up the same as from screensaver mode.
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Old 11-08-2010, 03:14 PM   #36
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Old 01-13-2011, 06:59 PM   #37
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My question is..HOW do you power off the kindle?
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Old 01-13-2011, 08:13 PM   #38
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Oh no! You mean my Kindle 3 will not fucntion as an e-reader when the Kindle 4 comes out???

Ummmm... no.
Not true!
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Old 01-13-2011, 08:40 PM   #39
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My question is..HOW do you power off the kindle?
Slide and hold the power button for 7 seconds. The screen will go completely blank and stay like that.
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Old 01-13-2011, 09:02 PM   #40
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I just put it to sleep. I used to turn it all the way off when I first got it, then I read on the boards that it was better to send it to sleep mode rather than off.
Ditto..Still has fantastic battery life.
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