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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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If you're a serious digital photographer, this might be just the ticket -- you can keep in in your camera bag with the rest of your kit. But you better make it a reflex to back it up regularly. Hard drives have moving parts and can break, or you could lose the device. Oops! There goes your entire stock...
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As you say, it does seem a little "over the top".
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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.
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I have a 200GB drive devoted to images, which is nearing full, and had a 200GB drive devoted to MP3s. But those, on average, are much larger files than ebooks.
For Plucker, for example, I routinely use the "High Compression" option, which gives Zip compatible file sizes. (If I didn't, I would already be using a 4GB card for my Plucker files...)
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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.
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Even if the device firmware can do it, the device interface provides no way to
specify it. That sort of search requires being able to enter an author name or title, but there's no way to do that.
If you could access it with something like a BT keyboard, that might change, but that doesn't seem to be an option.
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Dennis