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Originally Posted by kacir
There is another explanation.
Kindle is set up to index all the books you load on it. This can not be switched of or changed without hacking. Like many other things.
When you load dozens of books, you have to leave the Kindle on a charger and put up with a sluggish performance until it finishes indexing. It has to build a database, so when you search for something inside books, it can search very quickly.
Now imagine putting in an SD card with 16 GB of books.
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I don't really have to "imagine" it, dude, since I see it everyday on my Nook Gen 2. Without problems. With 32 GB.
Indexing isn't the problem, Amazon's insistence on using their cloud IS the problem and the reason they don't offer an sd card. You can do anything you want, as long as you do it the way Amazon tells you. It seems.
Personally, I'm waiting for reviews of the production version of the Kobo H2o before I tell Amazon "ciao, thanks for the memories but you don't get to tell me how I should be using an e-reader" (and maybe add a
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Am I angry about this? Ya think?