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Originally Posted by TedJ
AFAIK the Touch ships with 2 GB of flash, but some of that is reserved for the operating system. The reported 1 GB available for books is erring on the side of caution on Kobo's part.
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Actually, it's funny, because the chapters site actually reports the device as having 2gb of on board mem. (although with a disclaimer saying that 1gb is used for ebooks).
for those who don't know (and a bit of rambling here), 1gb is 1024mb, although, in most cases, you'll usually end up with less than what is stated, so 1gb will usually translate down to 900ish mb of usable space. 1400 would suggest 1.5gb, with 118mb being used up by system and support files., so 1282mb left for books...
The fact that my average sideloaded epub is about 350kb, I should be able to fit well over 3500 books on the device alone, which should more than satisfy most people, and if not, they can use a 32 gb sd card for more space.... if they use sideloaded books (and this doesn't include DRM'd books loaded by ADE)...
The interesting part is this; the average size of my books in KEPUB format is almost 6mb (smalles is just over a mb and the largest is a whopping 9mb)....This would suggest that if I were to use KEPUB's alone, I would be able to fit a grand total of 213 books. To reach up to 1000, they would have to average 1.2mb in size. I have 3 out of the 19 KEPUB books on my device that fit in that size bracket
So unless my math is wrong, which it could very well be, 1000 books is unrealistic, but because they use the old "up to" wording like the DSL companies have done in the past, they cover their a**es
That all being said, I still really don't have any issues with this as the amount of memory, for my use, is more than sufficient; however, it would be nice if they had a disclaimer.