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Originally Posted by Anthem
You mean other devious methods like an USB cable?! Which you will still be able to use without problems (assuming you have a computer, obviously).
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Actually USB is tricky. It must be a Master and some Slaves. Two (or more) Slaves cannot communicate to each other, as well as two Masters. Some devices are Masters themselves (to command Slave devices, like USB-TV or Radio-receiver and so on) - these cannot be connected to a PC, which is Master by default.
Once this hurdle is passed, the next one comes - logical lock-down - it means the USB I/F is opened only to a few applications. It's how iPhone works. Have a look on proprietary SAT-Recorders (like Sky, in Europe). They have a network I/F, an USB one, and a big HDD. Yet the content of the HDD cannot be accessed via none of these two I/F, which can only be used for eg playing youtube (bleah!) or external AVIs (bleah bleah) or upgrading the firmware.
Luckily my devices are Slaves and not locked.
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Originally Posted by Zeebra
I don't understand why the need for tons of storage or SD cards on ereaders. Most ebooks are fairly small in size and you can carry thousands already on the device.
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Not space, but accessibility.
Think for once what would happen to your nicest ever eReader you had when it will develop a memory fault. Like a scientist with Alzheimer, it's an irreplaceable loss.
When an SD card get broken, another one could be fit in. The books should have been archived properly on another storage medium.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Most phones don't have an SD card slot of any kind. So you don't always have that much space for audio/video/audiobooks.
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Again, which ones? Apart from iPhone and stuff I know very few
phones without an SD slot.
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Originally Posted by Katie1
IF the sdcards were such a Bad idea WHY do Nooks have them? Why do Sony ereaders have them? & Kobos???
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Not bad idea, but wrong idea.
Not part of the concept, but part of the customer's imagination.