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Originally Posted by boswd
I guess technically it's an added expense but when you can get a 4G card for around $10, even less than that for a 2G card, it's not exactly causing you to foreclose on your house or force you to eat Ramon Noodles for the next month   |
I bought a 8GB card at Costco for about $12 (they didn't have anything smaller). Of course it is $12 I would not have spent if B&N had included a little more user storage, probably even just another 1GB of it. But I'm set for life (or until microSD goes out of favor)...
I actually don't mind the clear separation between the storages. It's wasteful on the one hand, but at least it makes it easier to know what you need to back up. On Kindle everything is mixed together, and there's not much reason to back up Kindle Store content since it is generally not 'portable' (if the device dies, you won't be able to restore it to a new device from a backup). So it complicates things in the event you need to set up a new Kindle using backups (yes, so use calibre, and back its library up instead...).
As for energy consumption, I'm skeptical the presence of SD card will have much effect. But I guess I'll see soon enough.