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Originally Posted by eschwartz
there is simply no way anyone needs to bump up their onboard storage FROM 1,500 books to 32,000+. When do you plan on reading all those, and why is it impossible to get to a computer anytime in the intervening two decades???
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People carrying around their 21,941 volume Project Gutenburg collection in a 16 GB microSD card probably is the exception, rather than the rule.
The more common occurance is the on-the-spot in the middle of nowhere reference library, with a 627 volume reference library that takes up 5.23 GB, or, for an "extreme case" the ten volume reference library that takes up 4.5 GB.
My rant is that talking about the number of books a reader can hold, without giving the actual amount of storage is incredibly misleading. it's like the time a friend of mine was excited, because she was told that the mp3 player could hold twenty-five songs. Except, it barely could hold one song that she listened to --- a full length opera.
When sales droids tell me the number of books a device can hold, I just sweetly ask if that means that I could have all of the term papers my ex wrote during her art history course on it. The one on Vincent was only 5 GB in size.