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Originally Posted by DaleDe
And you say you own a Sony Reader and think the Kindle is poor beyond comprehension? It has been stated that it likely works on 8Gig and probably beyond but nobody has tested it. You Sony reader can only read 2 Gig and many devices are even limited to 1 Gig. All hardware design has tradeoffs and expenses. I suspect the controller chip in the Sony is cheaper than the one in the Kindle and the Kindle specs are just conservative since no one has a 32 Gig card to test with.
Dale
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I didn't say the Kindle is "poor beyond comprehension." I said it was incomprehensible why Amazon would limit the card slot to 2GB--and as it turns out, this isn't the case (see Cathy Weeks' post a couple up from this--thanks, Cathy!) so I humbly withdraw the objection.
I'm not totally in love with the Sony Reader, and had I not bought it, I might have taken a chance on the Kindle. I read fiction on the Sony, but it's worthless for the bulk of the material I read, which is nonfiction containing art that requires good PDF rendering and a large screen--that, and holograph scans of 19th century books stitched together as PDFs.