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jbcohen · 12-21-2010, 02:59 PM

As for size of the card, my pals who sell IT hardware tell me people as a general rule start with the 8gb card and go up or down based on what they need but for most things that people do 8gb will be plenty. Now the problem here is that you said you will upload apps, that's where you might run into troubble. Try looking at the file sizes of the apps and seeing how much space all of the apps that you have would use up. Apps can be a problem, don't have to be.

I recommend that you buy at least an 8gb and consider the 16gb if you find that the space demands of the apps that you intend to upload requires the 16gb.

My own camera at home has a 32gb compact flash card and that is more photos then I could ever possibly take in one sitting. I think the 8gb is all that I need in the camera.

1gb is approximatly 100 books, so 8gb is approximatly 800 books. Trouble is that this does not take into account your apps.

12-21-2010, 02:59 PM	#8
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	As for size of the card, my pals who sell IT hardware tell me people as a general rule start with the 8gb card and go up or down based on what they need but for most things that people do 8gb will be plenty. Now the problem here is that you said you will upload apps, that's where you might run into troubble. Try looking at the file sizes of the apps and seeing how much space all of the apps that you have would use up. Apps can be a problem, don't have to be. I recommend that you buy at least an 8gb and consider the 16gb if you find that the space demands of the apps that you intend to upload requires the 16gb. My own camera at home has a 32gb compact flash card and that is more photos then I could ever possibly take in one sitting. I think the 8gb is all that I need in the camera. 1gb is approximatly 100 books, so 8gb is approximatly 800 books. Trouble is that this does not take into account your apps. Last edited by jbcohen; 12-21-2010 at 03:04 PM.