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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
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 The books should have been archived properly on another storage medium.
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I don't think that's a valid concern. There are thousands of potential single-points of failure in a reader, and total loss of use of the internal flash memory is not especially high among them. Adding an SD slot just adds ANOTHER possible component to fail, and since it's mechanical and exposed and manipulated by humans, it's probably more likely to fail in the device's lifetime than any solid-state component inside.
Having an SD slot is nice if it's something you want. It's meaningless, and perhaps even a negative in some circumstances, if you don't.
Having reader choices with and without the option is good. It's certainly no crime to design one without one.
ApK
p.s. In my personal experience, the micro USB jack is the most likely component to fail....