Not following. According to TFA, it does turn off automatically, but the screen is E-Ink which uses zero power after programming. The user doesn't understand this.<p>Why the freakout, what am I missing?<p>(Disclaimer: I have a 2013 Kindle and I still get about a month out of each full charge.)<p>EDIT: If you really want a freakout, how about the fact that Amazon is no longer loaning their publishing catalog to libraries. That makes owning a kindle a difficult choice.<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/10/22323434/amazon-publishing-library-lending-access-refuse-overdrive-libby" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/10/22323434/amazon-publishin...</a>
You want to turn off your device? What is next ? you want to read content that we do not approve( think at the children and your grandma)?<p>Seriously, this makes me think that soon you will not be allowed to really turn off your phone and other smart devices, then you will really have no choice then put them in your fridge when you waZnt to have a true private conversation/action.
Joke's on them, my kindle turns itself off when it decides to precipitously drain the battery in a matter of minutes for no apparent reason.<p>Usually when I'm boarding a long flight. Cheeky fucker.
Ugh, I hate this kind of stuff.<p>At the same time, I’m a poor college student who finds the fact that the Kindle edition of books is often <i>half</i> the price of a physical copy, and <i>everything</i> is available through Amazon.<p>Can anyone recommend a good ereader/publisher stack? I’ve considered trying to find ePub versions and then converting them to work on my Kindle—is that possible?<p>Help free me from this prison!
I like my kindle, but I have noticed that my newer one has less battery life. I am not saying it got old and had less battery life, I mean new it didn't have the longevity of the old one.<p>I leave it sitting-- I thought off-- sometimes for a few days. The power goes down. Now I know why.<p>I love ereaders, and I have always loved using a kindle. But I realize now (too late I guess) I should have been supporting an open standard rather than becoming part of another roach motel eco-system.
Max Headroom, 1987 [0]:-<p>Edison Carter checks out the cops busting into some girl's apartment. He and his colleague want to know the score, and the cop pulls back a cushion showing how she's hotwired her TV:-<p>Janie Crane: "An off switch?" (looks shocked)<p>Metrocop: "She'll get years for that. Off switches are illegal!"<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(TV_series)</a>
Obligatory <i>Douglas Adams</i> reference: "Mode Execute Ready"[0]<p>If it ever <i>really</i> turns off, you can't turn it back on, because what is watching the button? To really turn off, it needs a <i>switch</i>. Which is to say, your phone also will not turn off; also, except by the battery dying.<p>[0] "<i>Ford flipped the switch which he saw was now marked "Mode Execute Ready" instead of the now old-fashioned "Access Standby" which had so long ago replaced the appallingly stone-aged "Off".</i>"<p>Adams dated his work implicitly by the word switch. "You must mean a physically bistable combined control/indicator." Red or green paint that gets covered or uncovered by moving it was once the pinnacle of industrial design chic, challenged only by designs that made it impossible to know which way was on.
Do Kindles have microphones?<p>Edit: lol, yes. This is from 2010:<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/2010/08/why-does-the-new-kindle-have-a-microphone/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/2010/08/why-does-the-new-kindle-have-a...</a>
I was thinking we could do the opposite with e-readers, since they have a persistent display: it's always off, it only momentarily turns on to flip the page when you press a button.