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Originally Posted by Readirect
The main reason for an SD card is that I'd like to have a WIDE choice of what I read and I usually read multiple different books -- different titles in the same category and different categories -- at the same time; often starting several different books before I find ones that I want to continue reading . YOU might not think that's important and that's fine, but you're not buying my ereader for me, are you?
My dollars, my choice. Fortunately, Kobo and others understand the value of actually caring about their customers.
That's why I'm saying "good riddance" to Kindle e-ink hardware.
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I agree with you... except for the part where I do that with the Kindle, which can hold ~3500 books, a number of which I am reading simultaneously.
Good riddance to FUD.
So that's the story. The Kindle has more than enough memory already to carry around thousands of books at a time. To quote myself on a different thread,
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
And since the 3.5GB in the Kindle Touch can hold about 3,000 average-sized books, you don't need expandable memory. If you read 100 books A DAY you will still have one month of reading on your Kindle. At a more reasonable but still exorbitant 3 books a day, you will have nearly 3 YEARS worth. I'm sure somewhere along the way you can get to a computer and swap them for new ones.
(Same logic applies to every other eReader, including the Kindle Paperwhite which has (shudder) a measly 1.5 GB and about a year's worth of books.)
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There is no need to carry around thousands MORE. At some point you will run out of memory even with a 128 GB SD card, presumably because you are that crazy guy whose lust for SD cards is so he will never be without Wikipedia...
The vast majority of Kindle users never come close to reaching the memory limit, so why should Amazon install a pointless SD card, which, as has already been pointed out, will raise the cost and weight of the device for no practical gain (from Amazon's perspective)?
I can hear the need for an SD card if you are in the habit of reading many comic books, which average at a FAR greater size than ebooks. But I guess Amazon is more interested in the majority of users, and in any event, they can use a Fire. Tablets will probably give a superior reading experience for that anyway, and there is plenty of memory on a tablet.
And yes it sucks. But Amazon doesn't care about minorities, they care about pleasing the most people. As they should.