My Weekend with the Kindle 2

Now, I don't know at all who this "Stephen Woicik" is, and didn't take the time to find out ... Still, I found this passage annoying:

"One strange thing was even when the Kindle was “off” it still drained a little power. Sliding the off button on the Kindle will generate the screen to go to a picture of a famous author with a message telling you to slide the power switch to turn the Kindle on. The screen never completely went blank. Not a big deal for a device that lasts days on a single charge, but if you want to conserve battery in a pinch it doesn’t help that there is no real way to turn it off completely."

I thought the (well-publicized, main "new innovation" kind of thing) point of the Kindle's e-ink display is that it doesn't use any power while showing a static image. So this particular complaint is probably not valid.

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