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Originally Posted by zoran
Next, file system
on the card has to be mounted. There is an easy way to look after
insertion and mount properly. Unmounting is the other story. Hot
removal is not what I would manage deliberately.
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Hot Removal should not be a problem; On a PC, if you're writing files to it, it's usually a good idea to eject it after you're done, but it's usually not required because there isn't any delay in writing the files to the USB flash drives/SD cards (ie - when it says it's done copying, it's really done copying), unlike a regular harddrive which usually uses write caching to speed up operations (ie - despite the fact that it says it's done copying, it might not have finished yet because your antivirus or some other app wanted to do something first, but the copy is retained in memory until it can finish; if your computer were shut off suddenly, that data would be lost). .
In the case of the kobo however, it's only reading things off the card; All bookmarking is done on the kobo itself so it doesn't write anything to the SD card while in use. If you'd like to test this, after you've copied some books onto your SD card, lock it (the little slider on the side of it). This will prevent being able to write to it, or to erase the contents. It will work fine in the kobo in this state.
And on power usage, it really should be minimal, again because it's only reading from the card; if it were writing too, it would be a different story
