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Originally Posted by recycledelectron
You might be able to, but what about a soldier stuck in IRAQ?
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Has network access and mucho computers.
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What about a school kid in a country governed by sharia law?
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Wouldnt' get his hand on such devices
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What about someone interested in libertarian ideas who lives in China?
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A 8GB card would hold the ideas just as well.
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What about a couple of college kids on a cross-country bike trip?
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A 8GB card would hold the books they want to read just as well.
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What about a bright kid stuck in a 3rd world country, where running water is a rareity?
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A cheap wasted textbook would be more sufficient, so he can start to learn the language first....
I'm not saying that we don't need the storage at all, but AT THIS MOMENT such a setup is overkill.
First, there aren't that many books digitized. Even if you count the digitizing comics and mangaprojects (which produces the largest files) you won't be able to fill the space up.
Second, it's quality that counts now. The ereadercompanies have to work on displayquality. Not storage limitations.
By the time the full color ebook-readers with massive runtime are available, memory-capacity will follow.
Seeing that they now can fit so many GB into a micro-sd, I'm pretty sure that in a few years the readers comes with a few GB of internal storage and with slots for cards that breaches TB-boundaries.
It's only when full colorbooks are available, that large storage capacities is needed.