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Originally Posted by BWinmill
The three biggest names are primarily interested in delivering readers to their storefront. If anything, we should be surprised that one of those vendors decided to incorporate a feature that doesn't directly contribute to that objective.
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I will point out that having it does connect people to their storefront.
I bought my wife a new Kobo to replace her Sony. The SD card and water resistant were the reason for the choice.
So now my library has the first few books bought from Kobo, and if they had not offered the features I was looking for there would never have been a sale.
And the books bought? Mostly manga. Which (contrary to the deeply held beliefs of troglodytes) can fill up 4 gigs of memory fairly quickly.
The troglodyte quip is fully deserved because manga was mentioned early in the thread and the Kindle store also sells manga. Yet many people (who by definition have to be either incapable of rudimentary math or pathologically afraid of employing it) continue to insist that SD cards are overkill. The conversation on Manga and illustrated texts shot that down and the rational posters who don't personally need expanded memory all dropped out at that point.
Leaving only contrarian trolls to keep this thread going.