iPad, maintenance?

This leads me to the interesting question that is there any benefits in turning off your iPad at nights? I never turn my iPad off, but it doesn't necessarily have to be on at nights when I sleep. Would the iPad battery life cycle last longer in the long run if I would turn it off every night?

Additional question: whenever I have my iPad next to my laptop while I spend most of my day working, should I keep the iPad plugged into power or not - regarding what is most beneficial for battery life cycle?

Tomovich wrote:
Since I got it, I’ve reset the iPad back to factory settings several times and I’ve hard reset it also several times. Can this harm the device?

Why have you done this? Did you have problems? This should not be at all necessary.
I've had mine for 6-7 months and have never had to do that.

and all the other times?

Why are you doing so many reset back to factory settings and resets?

In the six months I've had mine, the only time I've even turned it off was while flying.

Have a look at this http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipad.html

You had a 'feeling' that something was wrong. Interesting!
I can honestly say I have never had an error on my iPad in 7 months of use, but if I did get one, then I would probably do exactly what you have done, and do a reset or a restore from backup.
As far as maintenance is concerned, I don't know of any, but maybe someone else will step in on that.

What kind of error? I've never had any errors so far.

The only required maintenance is a lube and oil change every 3000 miles.

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It's a bug in Reeder and has nothing to do with the iPad.

I've no idea whether Reeder has addressed the issue as I've never used Reeder. You ought to notify them that their app generates that bug.