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Originally Posted by gevaisa
Has Amazon ever explained why the Kindle ereaders don't have SD card slots? I would love to try a Kindle but I'm a terrible ebook hoarder who feels naked if I don't have all my books with me when I'm out and about. 
Thank you very much! |
I guess, there's a simple explanation:
Amazon wants to sell content.
That's even their motto: "We don't want to make money when selling the product, we want to generate profits when the product actually is used" (or something like that, quote from Jeff Bezos).
Meaning:
They want you to buy your books from Amazon.
I do so. I've got around 1000 eBooks from Amazon. On my Paperwhite with 2GB, I could fit about 700 of those. On the newer model with 4GB, there should be storage space for close to 2000 original eBooks from Amazon.
There won't be many consumers, having more than those 2000 eBooks. If some have more (a friend of mine has hoarded more than 30000 PDFs), it's normally not original purchases, but (illegal?) downloads from 3rd party vendors.
Amazon doesn't want you to sideload too many books from 3rd parties...