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FB2 as the only ebook format? Only 2G of storage?
What poor decisions. There is no reason whatsoever to make this not support any size SD card.
And FB2? Unless they are looking at former USSR, Russian-speaking nations as their primary market they really missed the boat here. No US bookseller sells ebooks in FB2 format. Even Fictionwise with it's wide-format-range multiformat books doesn't sell FB2 books.
Expecting people to have to convert everything via calibre is ludicrous. And pinning the basic running of your device on a free program that you have no control over is equally ludicrous. Don't get me wrong, I ♥ calibre and think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but if I was marketing a device that absolutely depended on it, I would have made a deal with Kovid to pay him to guarantee whatever updates my device would need and possibly even getting a customized version with my company branding.
And the final indignity is that FB2 books are about twice as big as epubs, at least the way calibre converts my epubs. So with the 2GB limit, my current library of books that is about 1.8G would now need 3.6G, or more than the device can hold. Choosing to only support such a large format coupled with such a limited storage space is the final ludicrous I will use in this post.
What a blown opportunity. If they had made this support epubs and SDHC cards it would have been a real contender.
-Marcy
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