[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Hrafn

You appear to be sublimely unaware of the difference between capacity and actual content. Having the capacity for your library is not the same as having the content of your library on the device.

Perhaps I should've been clearer. Put the books on your other device too. It's that simple.

It may not be the easiest and best way, but it certainly is not the disaster you seem to feel it is, because it is not all hat hard and bothersome, and it shouldn't be your Grand Criteria for what an ereader should be, and there is no good reason for any ereader manufacturer to raise the cost of production by adding in a feature that the vast majority of their customers will not use, at least certainly not for this edge case. I'm not saying you cannot use mSD cards, I am saying that you should not get so upset about the lack of them, considering how easy it is to add books to your device even without one.

Most people when they mention why they want mSD card slots will fulminate about the extra storage, not the movable storage. Because how often do you really need to switch all your books over to a new ereader, on the spot, and have not had a chance at any previous time to load up that one?

Wherever the buyer wants, and is willing to pay, for it to end. NOT where eschwartz-the-condescending decides it must end.

Here, let me add in the rest of what I said:

Where does it end? If you have 32GB of books on your nice ereader with the expansion slot, will you go into panic attacks because you can't fit another 100GB?? Maybe the book you end up wanting is the 80,001st book, the one you couldn't fit on! Oh noes!

So your claim that you need the extra storage just in case you get struck with the need for a specific book that you simply cannot do without, right now, is an unfulfillable need. You can never really solve that problem, no matter how many books you have on your device -- there are always more.

What if somebody wants the opportunity to read a completely random classic, or have an encyclopaedia with them somewhere without internet access or any of a hundred and one other reasons why somebody might want a very large amount of text.

Then as I have said before, you will just have to load up enough books to be prepared for as many wants as you can anticipate... keeping in mind that even with an mSD card, you will not have that opportunity!! There are hundreds of gigabytes of information and you cannot possibly hold them all... so at some point you will need to pick and choose.

The point is just because you cannot imagine why somebody would want more than 3GB does not mean that nobody reasonably could. Your argument is an Argument from Personal Incredulity, a logical fallacy, and thus invalid.

I can imagine it. I simply believe it is a neurosis, which hardly makes it reasonable.

Why? Because eschwartz says you must? Not a very good reason. Ever hear of convergence? Why buy, and carry around, an mp3 player, when you already have a device with a headphone port?

You mean your smartphone/tablet?

MP3 players and ereaders are specialized devices. By definition, they are not meant for convergence. The whole point of an ereader is that it doesn't waste time doing anything other than focus on reading. If you want a converged device, there are lots of them. Headphone ports on ereaders were an experiment in TTS which failed. Ereaders don't really need to have them, and certainly should not pander to people who are trying to turn their ereader into an MP3 player or a smartphone. If you listen to more than a few occasional music tracks/audiobooks, you should get a device meant to handle both/it.

Honestly, this reminds me of another loon somewhere who is convinced that what the world really needs and wants is an Android-based, bluetooth-enabled 10" e-ink ereader so that he can use it as a computer monitor!!