Thread: Does anyone use the MicroSD card in their eReader
View Single Post
Old 04-30-2013, 06:04 PM   #7
DNSB
Bibliophagist
DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.DNSB ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
DNSB's Avatar
 
Posts: 46,445
Karma: 169098492
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Vancouver
Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos
Quote:
Originally Posted by kaufman View Post
I have 1700 or so eBooks and it only comes to 1.6 GB.

Can you put anything on the eReader besides books, or do you really have that many eBooks to carry around?

So is anyone actually using it?
I ran into issues on one trip with my original Kobo where I had to do a factory reset and was left with a choice of 7 books to read for 10 days since I hadn't copied the sideloads to my laptop. So I now keep all my sideloaded books on a uSD card. Much easier when one of the firmware updates I've sideloaded or a new plugin crashes the Touch/Glo/Aura. Just remove the uSD card (likely not needed but even paranoids have enemies...), factory reset the Kobo, connect to WiFi and update, stuff the uSD card back in, wait for processing and away you go.

Currently, I have ~1700 books on the uSD card which takes about 1.6GB. Much of that space is tech publications which tend to have massive numbers of graphics and are much larger than the average fiction book.

Regards,
David
Last edited by DNSB; 04-30-2013 at 06:08 PM.
DNSB is offline   Reply With Quote