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An hour of usage uses up roughly 4% (little on the lower side). Kindle further consumes 2% of battery in a 24 hour period. Brightness level has marginal effect on battery usage. So 30 mins usage per day will lasts for roughly 28 days (reading use 2% per day * 28 + idle use 2% * 28)u. 1.
- Ensure Your Kindle Firmware Is Updated
- Turn Off The Radios
- Turn Down The Backlight
- Turn Off Automatic Page Refresh
- Manually Sleep Your Kindle
- Treat The Battery Kindly
- Add Books While Charging
- Check For Corrupt Books
- Restart Your Device Once in A While
- If All Else Fails, Replace The Battery
One of the best things you can do to extend your Kindle battery life is ensure your Kindle's firmware is up-to-date. They're rarely published with any sort of fanfare (if at all), and if you don't read Kindle user forums as obsessively as we do you might never know they exist. But the Kindle occasionally suffers from a bug here or there that can pu...
Overall, the Kindle is a very efficient ebook reader. But there are certain things that are rather difficult to make efficient. The Wi-Fi and 3G radios will, simply by their nature, drain battery much faster. Unlike the very low power needed to change the display on the E Ink screen, it takes a decent chunk of power to search for and connect to nea...
Not all Kindles have backlighting, but if you're using the Paperwhite or Voyager, it pays to...well, pay attention to the back lighting. The backlight is so subtle at the lower levels (especially in daylight) that it's very easy to forget you have it turned on. We'd recommend getting in the habit of checking your backlight every time you use it dur...
E-Ink displays, even the high end ones, can sometimes have a problem with ghosting (especially when reading books that have large amounts of charts or illustrations). Ghosting occurs when the display refreshes poorly and a "ghost" of the previous text and/or graphics remains on the newly displayed page. The Kindle includes a mechanism for dealing w...
There's an argument to be made for putting your Kindle to sleep, and it may not be the one you're expecting. The Kindle is, essentially, always "on" unless you actually power it down completely. Whether it's displaying the screensaver, the book list, or the page of the book you're reading, the device is more or less in the same state and using the ...
It's really easy to forget that the Kindle is actually a very slender Linux-based computer, and inside that tiny package is a motherboard, memory, and, of course, a battery. Lithium-ion batteries are really robust compared to their older rechargeable counterparts like Ni-Cad batteries, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't follow the same general lit...
Every time you add a book to your Kindle, the Kindle operating system will index it. This is the basis of the search function on the device and it happens for every book whether you add a novel from the Kindle Store, get a periodical emailed to your Kindle, or sideload a manual from your computer. The indexing process is the most intense computatio...
When indexing goes smoothly, it chews up a decent chunk of computing power/battery life. When indexing doesn't go smoothly, it will outright tank your battery. Every once in a blue moon, the Kindle's indexing service will come across a book it can't index properly. This could be an Amazon-provided book that didn't download correctly, a book that ha...
We highlighted earlier in the guide that it's very easy to forget your Kindle is a little computer. Every computer benefits from a restart now and then; more rarely computers need to get wiped clean and start fresh. To that end it is beneficial to restart your Kindle occasionally (once a month or even every few months is fine if there are no issues...
Let's say you've done everything you can, your device is out of warranty, and the battery life is still really poor. Devices age, and lithium-ion batteries don't last forever. Your 4+ year old Kindle may simply have a heavily used battery that's due for replacement. While the Kindle models have improved over the years (and you might consider just b...
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- Editor-In-Chief
Oct 13, 2023 · This will drain the battery quicker than normal usage. All books, when downloaded, will be indexed. Download a lot of books or several large books will drain the battery quite quickly, possibly in less than a day. Check to see if a book is being indexed by searching for a nonsense word such as xrtvz. Helpful ?
Sep 24, 2023 · Powering Off the Kindle – To completely power down the Kindle, press and hold the power button or power switch for 10 seconds until the screen goes blank. To turn it back on, press the power ...
Jan 13, 2021 · Your Kindle doesn't use a lot of battery power to run, so you probably need to charge it every few days or weeks rather than once a day. Here are six ways to save the battery life on your Kindle.
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- Henry Blodget
May 21, 2023 · Kindle devices come with a built-in power saver mode, allowing you to save battery. To turn on the power saver: Tap anywhere on your screen, or if you’re on the Home page, go to Step 2. Tap on ...
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Apr 29, 2024 · The Kindle Paperwhite lasts much longer with a battery life of up to 10 weeks based on 30 minutes of reading a day. The smaller Kindle is still good but only rated to last up to six weeks based on ...
