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Old 11-25-2014, 06:38 PM   #2
eschwartz
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Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity
Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)
Disclaimer: I am a Kindle lover. I will try to keep the bias to a minimum though.

Do not worry about the memory. To quote myself on a different thread:
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
And since the 3.5GB in the Kindle Touch can hold about 3,000 average-sized books, you don't need expandable memory. If you read 100 books A DAY you will still have one month of reading on your Kindle. At a more reasonable but still exorbitant 3 books a day, you will have nearly 3 YEARS worth. I'm sure somewhere along the way you can get to a computer and swap them for new ones.
(Same logic applies to every other eReader, including the Kindle Paperwhite which has (shudder) a measly 1.5 GB and about a year's worth of books.)
And since then, the PW2 got upgraded silently to the same storage as the Touch.

The Kindle is extremely simple, with a clean interface I prefer over pictures I have seen of the Kobo home screen.
Ads are competely and utterly non-present on non-SO Kindles. Even on SO Kindles, the ads are only there on the lock screen and a small footer banner on the home screen. Hardly noticable and you definitely won't see anything while reading, which is where I usually spend my time.

The best way to order books in collections will be in calibre, not the ereader. Use a plugboard to dynamically insert the series into the title, then do a title sort -- regardless of ereader.

One last thing. You may want to think about getting a 3G Kindle. Even away from a network you can still sync with your Kindle Store purchases, and Amazon foots the bill for the connection -- all part of the service.
It does cost more for the hardware.
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