Originally Posted by
Littlegirl
Only this week BA sent out a reminder to crew about the fact that kindles and other electronic books need to be turned off, even giving us instructions on how different devices are turned off, just in case passengers don't know how to!
I'd be interested to hear how a Kindle turns off

It is literally a brick, doing nothing, unless it's redrawing its screen. So "off" is exactly the same as "displaying a page of a book". Though mine goes to a picture of an old writer.
signol