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OK. I've looked, and I get the idea, but I'm still confused.
This is a stand-alone, battery powered hard drive, intended for digital camera users. Plug in your expansion card from the camera, and the Hyperdrive automatically scans the card and copies over and backs up your digital photos.
The concept here is to use it for ebooks.
That's nice, but...
My device has two SD card slots, with a 2GB card in each. Card 1 has 3,255 volumes in Plucker format, occupying 1.52GB of space, and 51 miscellaneous text, RTF, and Word files occupying 14MB. Card 2 has 323 Mobipocket files, occupying 113MB, as well as 90 PDF files taking 50MB.
So, a total of 3,719 ebook files in various formats, occupying not quote 1.7GB of space. I already have my complete digital library on my device. If I run out of card space, I can switch to 4GB cards.
Tell me why I need this solution?
One important fact I suspect is being missed is that digital photos are likely to be a lot larger than any normal ebooks, possibly by a factor of 10. (On my device, the average volume is probably in the 200KB range, for pure text books. Illustrated volumes with embedded images will differ.)
If I'm traveling, I have the laptop, and can backup ebooks to, or add ebook files from it.
Others may differ, but for me, a stand-alone hard drive would be a solution to a problem I don't have.
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Dennis
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