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Originally Posted by NLight95
Does the speed of the SD card make any difference? Or will a "generic" card work just the same?
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Any speed card should be fine.
I have used brand new high speed SDHC and 3 year old SD cards and both worked fine.
The average E-book usually runs anywhere from a few hundred K bytes to 1 or 2 Megabytes, so even quite inexpensive low speed cards are just fine.
High speed cards are needed for video where you have to transfer hundreds of megs for a single video, and since e-ink readers can't do video anyway I am not sure you would see any benefit. Some of the Sony Readers do handle MP3 playback, but low speed cards are just fine for that.
The only time the reader is dealing with hundreds of megs is during the original indexing, and I am not even sure that a high speed card would speed this up, because the reader's CPU is very busy with indexing the data it is retrieving from the card as it is doing it, and so the reader may not be able to accept data at a higher rate anyway.