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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant
Well, it has 4GB of Flash, so I thought I might as well fill it. But if you try to use all that storage it becomes less and less happy.
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The problem with too many books is that the collections database can grow too large. This is MUCH worse on the K4(mini) and K5(touch), which moved the collections database from the USB drive to the much smaller (30MB) persistent user store (/var/local), that is also where log files and other stuff is written. When that gets full, the kindle bricks. There are fixes for that in the developer's corner. One way is to copy the collections database to the USB drive and replace the original copy with a symlink pointing to the file on the USB drive. After bricking, a debricking method includes zeroing out the 30MB partition containing the collections database (/dev/mmcblk0p3), but you can lose your collections database that way.
It is much easier to just limit how many books you put on your kindle, but there have been reports that you can brick the K4 or K5 by synchronizing to an amazon account that has too many books in it.