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Originally Posted by cmbs
It'd be nice if someone came up with a small carrying case for sd cards. Until then, they can be put into any number of little containers. Labeling them can also be a pain. Still, better than sorting through hundreds of pages to find a book.
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This defeats the purpose of having a 4GB card doesn't it.
Why have 160GB hard drive in an iPod... well, so you can have your whole music library with you. The iPod provides very simple menu system to navigate through the library... you can do it by Type (music, audiobook, podcast, videos), Artist, Genre, Albums, Songs... you can create play lists, it indexs the list so as you scroll through it, or you can shuffle... even indicating what songs are shuffled. You can also build on the fly play lists.
This is all done with a simple LCD screen with a simple list/scroll/select type menuing system. I don't see any reason why that simple nav can't be provided on an eBook. Granted the screen is slower. Also, the JetBook provides mobilephone like Text entry including T9 style to search/navigate (granted it has an LCD screen.)
Bottom line, if the CyBook is going to support a 4GB SD card, they should support the ability to list/navigate/find with decent performance the number of books that amount of storage can handle. Do they not test this type of usability?
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