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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?
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That's the point. Amazon isn't making the Kindle just for you. They are making it for a wider audience. Most of that audience doesn't want or need to carry around more then the couple of thousand books that can fit into internal storage.
Its not about control and it isn't about the cloud. Its about keeping down costs by only providing hardware that is going to help them sell more devices. That's why they don't provide an SD card slot. Because most people don't own enough books to fill of the internal storage and never will. They only offer 4GB instead of 2 because the extra 2 GB is cheap and it allows them to advertise storage for a large number of books.
By the way, good luck with your huge library on the Kobo. I've been using an Aura HD for a year or so, and if you put more than about 800 books on it a time, the system slows down to a crawl. Book reading is fine, but you will spend several minutes going from collection to collection.