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Old 03-10-2013, 10:30 AM   #8
JD Gumby
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An SD card will certainly use SOME power - it needs power to operate, after all. But the power usage should be minimal compared with the power used by the rest of the device.
...unless you're using a Kobo device, then the use of a microSD card will cause quite a bit of drain thanks to it now creating temporary thumbnails on the fly for books on the card instead of creating the thumbnails once (either at indexing or the first time a book comes up when browsing your library) and storing them on the device.
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