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Old 09-02-2008, 03:01 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by worxland View Post
What for?
Having more than 2TB of HDDs in my computer I really know that there is no such thing as too big storage but for Christ's sake...
When I bought my PRS-505 I lamented on how big Memory Stick I should buy but the internal memory is more than enough (having 60 books and more than 100 megs free) - I see no reason to store every book on the reader and even if you do 2 gigs is enough for more than 1000 books - reading a new one every other day means the card will serve you for almost six years. As for storing pictures and music on the reader - it is simply stupid. Wanna listen to music while reading - use an mp3 player (iPod for the clueless). Wanna look at pictures in 4 or 8 shades of grey? No comment. Readers (currently) are to read - full stop. Later on with newer technologies they can be Swiss Army Knives like our current cell phones - but then they won't be (just simple) readers any more.
One reason is that you can buy them as cheap as smaller memory devices and that trend will continue. Why spend the same money and only get a 256K device? Whether you really need the more memory is not beside the point. Anyway, large ePuB documents with lots of images and PDF files that can exceed 10 Meg for one file are out there.

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