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Originally Posted by eschwartz

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

Perhaps I should've been clearer: stop telling other people how to use their eReaders!

Clear enough for you?

It is far more "simple" to have it on a removable card. That way you can always move it around, even when you are not in a position to copy your library onto a new device.

...but it certainly is not the disaster you seem to feel it is...

When did I state or imply that I felt that this would be a "disaster"? WHEN?

You are YET AGAIN simply putting words in my mouth.

...your Grand Criteria for what an ereader should be...

I don't remember stating that my reasons for preferring an independent eReader manufacturer was in any way a "Grand Criteria".

You are YET AGAIN simply putting words in my mouth.

...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...

Then isn't it a remarkable coincidence that most independent manufacturers include one, whereas the manufacturers who are big retailers don't?

[Ad nauseam repetition of already-rebutted drivel omitted.]

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

Obviously I needed to knit-pick-proof my original first sentence:

The point is just because you cannot imagine why somebody would [reasonably]want more than 3GB does not mean that nobody reasonably could.

I would have thought that the first "reasonably" was implicit in the second, but some people, it would seem, need things to be completely nailed down or they will find some way to (intentionally) misinterpret its obvious meaning.

You mean your smartphone/tablet?

Unlike you, I don't make unnecessary assumptions, like that people must have a smartphone or tablet with them, so could not possibly want to play audio on their eReader.

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.

I would suggest that an eReader that has both an audio port and audio-playing software is meant to play audio. But that is letting the facts inform me.

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!!

Is it "honest" to compare somebody who has expressed a mild preference for, and has defended the rationality of, a feature offered by most independent manufacturers, to a "loon" who is pushing a very specific and idiosyncratic design? (When have I ever stated or implied that an mSD slot is a deal-breaker for me?) No, it is blatantly dishonest!

Is it "honest" to repeatedly put inflated and histrionic words in somebody's mouth, in an attempt to discredit them? No, it is blatantly dishonest!

I'm afraid that the on-fire-pants appear to fit eschwartz perfectly.