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## Maximizing Battery Life

There are many ways to conserve battery power. To extend battery life:

- If you have no plans to use the Reader, completely power off the Reader.

- Do not leave the Reader with the battery depleted for a prolonged period of time. Battery capacity may be affected.

- Use and store the Reader at room temperature, or within the recommended temperature range of 5°C to 35°C (41°F to 95°F).

- Turn off Wi-Fi when no wireless communication is necessary.

- Turn on [Wireless Standby] when you want to extend the battery life.

### Power-consuming operations

The following may require more power than normal reading operations.

- Wi-Fi communications

- Constantly updating the [Wi-Fi Networks] list

- Displaying graphic-intensive books, periodicals, files or Web sites

- Displaying a slideshow with a short interval setting

- Using a microSD card

- Frequent insertion and removal of a microSD card

- Having a large volume of content stored on a microSD card

- Annotations, keyword searches and dictionary searches

- The Wi-Fi network feature of the Reader is not in standby mode.

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