10 Tips to Fix the Kindle Battery Draining Fast

During a long vacation away from home, we forgot to bring the micro USB cable used to charge our relatively old Kindle Paperwhite. We never thought of bringing one as all of our other devices use Type-C. While it makes sense to buy a cable there, we wanted to try a few techniques to prevent our Kindle battery from draining quickly and see how long we could go without a charger.

And the results are pretty good. We tried a variety of effective techniques. In this article, we want to share all of them with you. You can apply these eleven tried and tested methods to your Kindle reader quite easily. So let’s get started.

1. Use Airplane Mode

Kindle uses an active internet connection to ensure it syncs your library and keeps you up to date with all changes made in your library. However, when all you want to do is read your current book, you won’t need an internet connection to sync and update your library. After all, if you’re reading a book, that means it’s already saved to your local storage.

So it makes sense to enable Airplane mode on your Kindle during those times. Here’s how to do it.

Step 1: Tap anywhere on the screen if you are reading a book. If you are on the home screen, go to the next step.

Step 2: Click the down arrow icon.

Step 3: Tap the Airplane mode icon to turn it on.

This will enable airplane mode, and we can confirm from our personal experience that this will help prevent your Kindle’s battery from draining quickly.

2. Read in daylight at the lowest brightness

Kindle uses E-Ink technology so you can use your Kindle in daylight with minimal brightness, unlike traditional displays. You can take advantage of this and try reading during the day. Using Kindle at low brightness saves battery life.

Here’s how you can reduce the brightness on your Kindle device.

Step 1: Tap anywhere on the screen if you are reading a book. If you are on the Home page, go to Step 2.

Step 2: Click the down arrow icon to open the control panel.

Step 3: Use the brightness slider to reduce the screen’s brightness.

3. Turn off page refresh

The page refresh option will refresh your Kindle screen every time you open a new page. Turning this off will save you battery life on your Kindle. Here’s how you can do it.

Step 1: Tap anywhere on the screen if you are reading a book. If you are on the Home page, go to Step 2.

Step 2: Tap the down arrow icon to open the panel and go to All settings.

Step 3: Tap Reading Options.

Step 4: Turn off the switch for Refresh Page.

That’s what you need to do to turn off page refresh on Kindle. Another trick you can use to prevent your Kindle’s battery from draining quickly is to turn on the power saver.

4. Enable Power Saver

Your Kindle has a built-in power saving mode that you can use to save battery life. Here’s how you can enable power saving options on your Kindle.

Note: Some older devices miss out on the power saving feature despite running on the latest software, such as our 7th Gen Kindle Paperwhite. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been any official word from Amazon about the lack of this feature on some versions of Kindle.

Step 1: Tap anywhere on the screen if you are reading a book. If you are on the Home page, go to Step 2.

Step 2: Click the down arrow icon to open the control panel.

Step 3: Tap on Device Options.

Step 4: Tap on Advanced options.

Step 5: Select the Power Saver option and tap Enable. This will enable Power Saver mode to save battery on your Kindle.

Next, let’s take a look at another useful tip, which is to restart your Kindle from time to time.

5. Restart your Kindle

If you have any faulty configurations or components running on your Kindle, they have the potential to affect your battery life. However, restarting your Kindle will shut down all activity and you’ll essentially start a new session. This can help prevent your Kindle battery from draining quickly.

Here’s how you can restart your Kindle.

Step 1: Tap anywhere on the screen if you are reading a book. If you are on the Home page, go to Step 2.

Step 2: Tap the down arrow icon to open the panel and go to All settings.

Step 3: Tap on Device Options.

Step 4: Click Restart and select Yes to confirm.

Next, you can also try updating your Kindle to make sure you’re using the latest software version.

6. Update Kindle

Amazon is constantly releasing software updates for the Kindle, and some of these will include patches that can improve battery life. So here’s how you can update your Kindle.

Step 1: Tap anywhere on the screen if you are reading a book. If you are on the Home page, go to Step 2.

Step 2: Tap the down arrow icon to open the panel and go to All settings.

Step 3: Tap on Device Options.

Step 4: Tap on Advanced options.

Step 5: Tap Update your Kindle.

If the option is grayed out, it means your Kindle is already running on the latest version.

However, manually putting your Kindle to sleep is also known to save battery. So let’s see how we can do that.

7. Manually Enable Sleep Mode on Your Kindle

Putting your Kindle to sleep activates the screensaver and ensures that it turns off active activities while you read. Some of them include presenting text, continuously learning the reading speed, refreshing the page, etc. So putting your Kindle to sleep will save some battery.

All you need to do is press the power button on your Kindle once. It is present on the bottom edge of your Kindle e-reader. To turn it on, you need to press the power button again.

8. Add books while charging

Whether you’re downloading books on your Kindle or you’re sending books from your PC or other sources, make sure you do this while your Kindle is charged. This is by far the most resource-intensive activity you can do on your Kindle. So make sure you don’t constantly drain the battery while doing so.

Next, let’s look at another method to save battery life, which is to check for any damaged books.

9. Check for damaged books

The software running on your Kindle will index all the books you’ve added to it. However, if there are any books with corrupted data in them, Kindle won’t be able to index them. But the problem is here the algorithm is very focused on indexing all the books and it will try to re-index all these corrupted books and this will obviously drain your battery. Friend. Therefore, this must be stopped to maintain battery health.

So you need to make sure to check these unindexed books, then remove them or try adding again.

Step 1: Use the search bar to search for unindexed books. Enter a meaningless term like ‘gd9hiagd’. Never mind, this is just to enable the search function.

Step 2: Tap the ‘Text in Books’ option.

Step 2: If the search doesn’t return any results, this means everything is indexed.

Step 3: If the search returns few results, here’s what you need to do.

• If the books shown were recently added, they are in the process of being indexed, so don’t delete them.
• If the books shown were added a long time ago and are still being indexed, they are broken and you should delete them.

Now let’s see the final tip from our side, which is to change the battery on your Kindle.

10. Replace your Kindle battery

Like any electronic device, Kindle batteries degrade after a long period of use. So it makes sense to spend money on a battery replacement for your Kindle if you’ve been buying a battery for a few years now. Furthermore, if you’re using an older Kindle and none of the above methods work, it might be time to take your Kindle to Amazon support and have the battery replaced.

That’s all you need to know about what you can do when your Kindle battery runs out fast. If you have any further questions regarding this, you can check out our FAQs section.

Kindle Battery FAQ

1. What is the battery capacity of Kindle Paperwhite?

The battery capacity of the latest Kindle Paperwhite is 1700mAh.

2. How long does Kindle battery last?

Kindle battery life in an ideal situation lasts for 4-6 weeks with an hour of reading per day.

3. How long does Kindle battery last?

The battery on your Kindle should last for about 4-6 years before it degrades and requires replacement.

Save battery on your Kindle

We hope you try these techniques on your Kindle to ensure good battery life. However, the Kindle battery lasts quite a while, and it never surprised us with how good a product is. This is one of our favorite purchases, and with the launch of Kindle Scribe, we’re excited about the future of E-Ink devices!

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