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Originally Posted by emalvick
The question becomes can you read 10,000 books. Until someone can do that, I don't see a need to have a reader to hold that many books.
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Some people load things like manuals on their readers or tablets. Or other reference material.
I personally would *LOVE* to have a kind of local mirror (regularly updated of course ;-) )of Wikipedia in my pocket. A few years ago there was a device available, with primitive grey LCD, text-only display with Wikipedia on it. Last tile I looked you could even download snapshot of the entire English (and I suppose other languages / sections as well) Wikipedia database - text only - as series of archives.
I would also appreciate an off-line database of electronic parts, such as integrated circuits, discrete semiconductors, capacitors, resistors, ... complete with datasheets and reference designs.
People have all kinds of "libraries" of materials, and it isn't always fiction or even what you would recognise as an e-book.
You can only read one fiction book at one single moment, but some people like to have choice of what to read next. Like one poster in one of previous posts said if you went to library and they only let you access one small shelf of books saying "You can't possibly read all 50 thousands of books we have here, so why do you want to see all the books?" you would be annoyed.
There is another point of view.
Limited number of books you can actually load on Kindle is an artificial limitation. Amazon is trying to motivate you to have only a few books available on the device at the time, and they want you to purchase content from them as you go. Some people, myself included, are very annoyed when we come across such artificial limitation, and we want to hack the system as a matter of principle. Not because we *really* need 50000 books on the device, but because we do not like to be told what we can do with our devices.