[KimmyA]

I had to call customer support about that myself about a month ago. I was told that was normal. I rarely have whispernet on (only to download a book I've purchased) and in sleep mode, it was killing my battery. I was told that the kindle still uses power when in sleep mode. Plus he said the screensavers change so that uses power too.

I don't use an SD card and have about seven pages of books.

You can call CS if you like and see if you get the same answer.

 

[KimmyA]

That's why I called CS when I did. Everyone else leaves their kindles in sleep mode and I couldn't. I figured something was wrong with mine. Now I just turn it off.

 

[KimmyA]

I honestly don't pay any attention to which screensaver is on when I put it into sleep and when I go to read again. I don't know if they changed or not. I'm just repeating what the CS guy told me. 

An example of what mine did: I would fully charge the kindle say on a Monday, read for an hour, then put it to sleep. On Tuesday, I would read for an hour and put it to sleep. Wednesday the thing wouldn't turn on at all because the battery was dead. Whispernet wouldn't have been on at all during that time.

If I turn it off after each use, the battery will last about a week. So I just do that. I don't know why some people have battery drain during sleep and others don't. Seems kinda odd.

 

[KimmyA]

I had never paid any attention to the screensavers so I couldn't argue with the guy. Maybe I'll email them and see what they say.