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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I agree in one sense, but memory is so cheap these days, why not. In fact last week at Walmart 8 GIG USB drives were cheaper than 2. (not that I wanted either but someone must)
I wouldn't expect them to retrofit older devices, but why not design new ones with more memory?
Helen
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I agree about memory being very cheap. I just purchased a 16GB SD memory card for about $15 (US) for my Sony PRS-505 ereader. Of course, the cost of all types of memory has dropped. When I purchased my first hard drive for my computer in the 1980s, I paid $300 for a 30MB hard drive. I thought I'd never fill it...
To me, a relatively small amount of internal memory is not an issue as long as the device has at least one memory card slot. In a related issue, I've wanted to see an audio player that has a small amount of internal memory (mainly for system management) and uses memory cards for music storage.
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Originally Posted by jocampo
I can't understand why people want several Gigs of ebooks (which may translaters to hundreds, maybe thousands of books) in the same device and at the same time.
There is no human being that can read all of them in just a few weeks or days.
It would be different if we were talking about a PC or Mac with Calibre, but hey, this is a portable ereader.
I mainly read MS-SQL and IT books which are bigger in size (talking about ebooks, not PDFs) than most ebooks that people may read or buy here. And I have tons of MS-SQL books on my PW2 and I can add much more.
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As far as why I'd want a large library available: I have a large number of ebooks (and also a large number of physical books) that I've enjoyed in the past and I like to have them handy so I can revisit my favorite passages whenever I choose. But related to this is that the ereader have a good collection management system, which I consider essential for a ereader.
My reason for wanting a large amount of storage is that I create ebooks for my ereader as PDFs. I have a 2GB memory card and it only took a few hundred ebooks to fill it. Although the size of a PDF is a disadvantage, for me the reliability of the formatting (my ebooks look on my ereader exactly as I intend) outweighs the added size. However, that's a matter of personal preference.