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Originally Posted by JSWolf
My expectation is that Amazon will NEVER put in a card slot no matter how many people want such. They do so because of the cloud. Amazon expects people to buy eBooks from them and to download what they need when they need it. Amazon does not expect customers to keep all of their eBooks on the Kindle at one time.
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Amazon does so because they actually know what their customers want, and very few of them give a darn about SD slots. You keep on insisting that droves of Kindle owners want SD slots, but have yet to provide any proof OR rationale.
Amazon is all about giving the customer what the customer wants -- it is rather what they are known for.
People expect people to download what they need when they need it, and Amazon caters to them.
But wait -- it gets better. Amazon ALSO provides enough builtin storage to satisfy the people who want 3500 books on their Kindle at any given time, which is the kind of person I am, and I have never not been able to find a book I wanted to read. Between my ~200-item TBR, my collection of hundreds of old favorites that I might want to refer back to at any given time, and every book I have read in the last year and have not gotten around to deleting yet, plus a random selection of miscellaneous everything, I am confident that there will never EVER be a given moment when I really want to read a specific book, can't, and feel even slightly unhappy as a result.
(If so, I can most likely download it either from Dropbox or the Kindle Cloud.)
As long as I rotate in some new books at least once a year, I am thus totally covered.
This from someone whose tastes at any given moment range from eclectic to outrageous, who is usually in the middle of at least twelve books at any given time (spanning both ebooks and pbooks) and has a LOT of favorites he likes to refer back to and quote randomly at random times, or suddenly gets struck with the passing fancy to read.
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An SD slot is not for fringe groups or nitpickers. An SD slot can be very useful. It means you can store eBooks on it and use it to go from one Reader to another without having to have a computer handy. I have an card slot and I've not used it. But that doesn't mean I never will. So please don't insult people just because they want a card slot on a Reader.
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In order for the value of that to reach 0.00000000000000000000000000000001¢, I would have to change ereaders somewhat more frequently than once every several years -- in fact, I'd have to be changing ereaders at least once a month.
How often do you change your ereader, that it actually concerns you that you need to transfer your entire library to a new device potentially at any moment?
I remember a very similar claim at one point, where someone said ereaders are required (per Word of Consumer) to have SD slots... so people can insert their library into the ereaders on display at Best Buy.
So... I really do think I will roundly insult anyone who crosses the line from wanting an SD slot on their ereader, to assuming they are anything but a fringe group undeserving of the full attention of the major brands.
You can usually tell who they are -- they are the ones issuing proclamations against the Kindle for not having SD slots.