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cfw123 · 12-09-2007, 07:53 PM

With the Kindle, you'll probably never take out the SD card unless it fills up. So why settle for just 2 GB when you can have 4 GB, and go much longer before it fills up. Yes -- even though the Kindle documention doesn't say, it does support the 4 GB SDHC (HC for High Capacity), and I have one mounted in my Kindle. It shows a memory size of 3.8 GB but I'm sure some portion of it is taken up by overhead, and that's so much better than the measly 180 MB that shows for the local memory.

I called he Kindle support and asked why they didn't specify that the SD drive was HC complient. Their answer was that it had not been tested (!!!). But I tested it, it does work, so I called them back and told them so. Hopefully they'll tell that to everyone who calls about it from now on.

Charles Wilkes

12-09-2007, 07:53 PM	#2
cfw123 Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: San Jose, Calif., USA Device: Kindle	SDHC cards for 4 GBs With the Kindle, you'll probably never take out the SD card unless it fills up. So why settle for just 2 GB when you can have 4 GB, and go much longer before it fills up. Yes -- even though the Kindle documention doesn't say, it does support the 4 GB SDHC (HC for High Capacity), and I have one mounted in my Kindle. It shows a memory size of 3.8 GB but I'm sure some portion of it is taken up by overhead, and that's so much better than the measly 180 MB that shows for the local memory. I called he Kindle support and asked why they didn't specify that the SD drive was HC complient. Their answer was that it had not been tested (!!!). But I tested it, it does work, so I called them back and told them so. Hopefully they'll tell that to everyone who calls about it from now on. Charles Wilkes