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I'm not sure why I'm bothering to comment in this thread, except to say that for people who want to buy an eInk reader, have more than a couple of GB of ebooks, and would like to maintain all of their books on the reader so that they can choose what to read without relying on wifi connections (or a PC) that may not be accessible in their current location, there are really few companies selling in the US market today that have such a reader. I think Kobo may be the only one now, now that Sony dropped out of the US market, and B&N dropped the SD slot in their latest reader. It is true that very few people could ever read all of the books completely in their library if they have more than 4 GB of ebooks, but that's not necessarily the goal of the people with the desire to own an eInk reader with a SD card slot. I don't understand why it is necessary for people who don't find a SD card slot useful need to mock those who do, or vice versa. My guess is the addition of the slot probably costs about $3-5 to the cost of the device, so I wouldn't expect to see one in a device that's meant to be as cheap as possible, but I would expect to see it on a premium device like the Aura HD or H2O.
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