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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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.
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Yes, that's the impression that I got too. I currently use my iPod for that purpose, which works very well.
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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?
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As you say, it does seem a little "over the top". I've been accumulating eBooks for something like 20 years and currently have about 15GB of them on my hard disk. It's difficult to imagine needing even a 250GB hard disk for them unless one is into books which are scans of graphical images, as I believe "manga" comic-books are, for example. I suppose it might be useful for MP3 files, but I have an iPod which I use for that purpose, which is a FAR better MP3 player than any eBook reader that I've owned.
At the end of the day, though, it seems to be the device's firmware which is the limitation here. With my 15,000-odd e-books, it's useless to have all the books available unless I have a decent search facility to actually FIND them.