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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The popular trend is to have a single, multipurpose gadget (read - smart phone) for everything. It does nothing well, but everything well enough to limp along.
Such a gadget will never have enough internal memory for all the data, external storage is a must. (Or you continually waste your time loading and unloading data.)
But at the same time, what parameters do you want on your multi-function gadget? Some people place a higher value on battery life, and are willing to give up some of the multifunctions (full motion video and web browsing, for example).
For such a gadget, an SD chip is optimal. You want to store more stuff? Buy a bigger chip. They're riduclously expensive right now, but you can buy a 1/2 Terabyte (512 GB) full-size SD chip. That would hold my audio library and my ebook library, on one chip, with lots of storage left over. The gadget then becomes an expendable...Any brand, any size, just as long as they will handle your chip, and you basic file structure. (Which is the opposite of the "walled garden" approach of multiple vendors...
But if all you want is a single function, totally non-flexible gadget, and are happy with the "walled garden" approach, then the Kindle is perfect.
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If by non-flexible you mean single-purpose (slight redundancy there?) I quite agree.
Walled garden is something totally different though.
Also worth noting is that multipurpose gadgets do not necessarily limp along. They have different strengths, just because some people value battery life say, and readability outside, does not mean a tablet -- targeted at a different use-case -- limps along in
it's use-case. And for the people who do not value an ereader's strengths, a tablet is the superior device in terms of performance.
That is the beautiful thing about having both to choose from, we can all decide what we value.
Although I would not use a tablet as my main reading device (until they can duplicate the battery longevity and fix the outdoors issue, LiquaVista??
) that doesn't mean the people who
don't read outside and
don't care about charging every ~day etc. have any reason or need to use a device that is substandard for their needs.