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I am always surprised when I hear that people have enormous numbers of books on their reader.
I think if I were an engineer designing eReaders, I too would not consider designing for performance when managing Library sized colections of books.
Off the top of my head, I would say the power supply, the current quality of processors, and heat issues inherent in ereaders would make an eReader a less than optimal device for managing complete libraries. This is probably a case of the engineers trying to 'catch up' with the users.
To me at least, it makes MUCH more sense to store my ebooks on an inexpensive external HD connected to my PC. I transfer books to the reader every couple of weeks and delete them from the reader as I am done with them while the original copies remain safely on my HD. This is also why, from my perspective, super huge amounts of RAM or removable media isn't such a big deal.
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