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Originally Posted by eschwartz
...I suppose it is theoretically possible Amazon restricts the storage in a ridiculous belief that anyone going over the limit is obviously a pirate... but I doubt it....
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They don't "restrict" it. They simply don't add more, because it hardly could help their sales but might make their readers more interesting for side loading.
If they'd be interested in that, they easily cloud add ePUB support, for example.
But they (as Jeff Bezos openly states) are not interested in hardware sales per se, they are interested in using their hardware as a vehicle for content sales.
Why would anyone, who's mainly interested in side loading, buy any Kindle at the moment?
Kindles use the "wrong" file format and without SD card it's not that open and flexible and for some of my hoarder-friends 2GB are way too limited.