I've just finished the power off trial so I'm posting my initial results.
Purpose: Does the battery last longer putting the Kobo to sleep or is it better to power it off.
Sleep Cover option:
Fully charged on Feb. 4th, needed to be charged by Feb. 16th. however I have a total reading time of 33.7 hrs listed in my reading stats. One caveat on this though is that I did do a firmware upgrade during this time which most likely wore the battery down more that it would have under normal use.
Next test was to turn off using the Sleep Cover and instead use the switch to put the Kobo in sleep mode:
Fully charged on Feb. 16th and needed to be charge again March 5th. So just over 2 weeks. Reading time was now only 24.4 hrs. Leading me to wonder just how accurate the reading stats are.
3rd test sleep after 15mins, power off after 30mins:
Charged up March 5th, needed to be charged again March 26th. Reading time: 38.3 hrs.
I will be running these tests a second time.
Other factors in this test, books were on an SD card and testing was done on the Kobo Glo with the light on at least half the time. All books read were epubs with 1 exception that was a PDF.
I plan on doing the test a 3rd time with the books directly on the Kobo without an SD card plugged in.
Purpose: Does the battery last longer putting the Kobo to sleep or is it better to power it off.
Sleep Cover option:
Fully charged on Feb. 4th, needed to be charged by Feb. 16th. however I have a total reading time of 33.7 hrs listed in my reading stats. One caveat on this though is that I did do a firmware upgrade during this time which most likely wore the battery down more that it would have under normal use.
Next test was to turn off using the Sleep Cover and instead use the switch to put the Kobo in sleep mode:
Fully charged on Feb. 16th and needed to be charge again March 5th. So just over 2 weeks. Reading time was now only 24.4 hrs. Leading me to wonder just how accurate the reading stats are.
3rd test sleep after 15mins, power off after 30mins:
Charged up March 5th, needed to be charged again March 26th. Reading time: 38.3 hrs.
I will be running these tests a second time.
Other factors in this test, books were on an SD card and testing was done on the Kobo Glo with the light on at least half the time. All books read were epubs with 1 exception that was a PDF.
I plan on doing the test a 3rd time with the books directly on the Kobo without an SD card plugged in.