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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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Back in the days when the Pocket PC or Palm only had like 8, 16, 32, or 64mb of storage (yes, megabytes) that would make a ton of sense. But we have gigabytes now. You can store thousands of books on even the crappiest Kindle. THOUSANDS. Or at least HUNDREDS if the files are massive. With the combination of cloud storage and gigabytes of onboard storage most people probably don't need an SD card on their e-reader these days. So the demand is probably not stellar, you know? But if you do need the SD card you should totally get a model that has an SD card slot. Why the heck not? Go for it. That is the power of choice.
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Originally Posted by Readirect
My dollars, my choice. Fortunately, Kobo and others understand the value of actually caring about their customers.
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Amazon has world class customer service, bar none. And their crazily expanded line of Kindles, Fire phones and Fire tablets shows that they are trying to cater to as many people as possible. It is in their interests as a business to give people what they want and they do this better than almost anyone in the world, but that doesn't mean they can get exactly what everyone on the planet wants.
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Originally Posted by Readirect
That's why I'm saying "good riddance" to Kindle e-ink hardware.
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And there's no shame in that. You gotta go where you feel your needs are met the best.