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Originally Posted by l0h
Looks like, the only way to get a higher memory capacity (> 2GB) is to buy a Memory Stick card. Correct?  |
That's correct, l0h.
You should also be aware that using a memory card will reduce your battery life somewhat -- they draw power too. I know that's obvious, but most folks don't seem to think about it until it's pointed out.
However, I
would suggest that you give some thought to whether you really want that much memory before you go out and buy it.
What I mean is, most folks seem find sorting through more than about a dozen files (ten titles to a screen) to be too cumbersome to want to mess with in practice. They also seem to find that with ten or twelve books on it at a time, they have more than enough time to add new titles and remove old ones without ever running out of stuff to read. I think of it as using the Reader as a sort of digital reading shelf: you know, the place you stack the books you plan to read next?
My wife is just as happy to get that pile off the bedroom floor, which is where it lived for several years before I got my Reader (not
eReader, by the way --
that's a reading software application for the Palm platform
).
I'd recommend that you get your Reader and see how you actually use it. There's more than enough memory to see how you feel about wading through a hundred files or so on it, and if you already have an SD card handy, you can add it to the mix as well and see what you think of that.
Anyway, if you find that sorting through the files is something you're willing to deal with in order to accomplish whatever it is that you're trying to do that you want more than 2 GB of space, you can always pick up a MemoryStick after a couple of weeks -- they'll be cheaper by then anyway.
Also, you should be aware that the 505 will handle a 2 GB SD card
and an 8 GB MemoryStick
at the same time (it has 2 separate slots), so you can actually add 10 GB to its on-board memory, if you really want to go there.
