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Originally Posted by Phogg
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.
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I happen to agree entirely that for manga and manga alone, more space is acceptable and needed. I would also like to point out that most Kindle buyers -- and people with ereaders in general -- are not heavy manga readers AFAIK (the definition of a fringe group), so it wouldn't really contribute to Amazon's bottom line to cater to them in E-ink devices... but I certainly don't blame any manga readers for wanting an ereader with an SD slot.
Personally, I cannot help but think that you are going to get better mileage out of reading manga on a tablet anyway
All I'm saying is that I don't expect an SD card to be an intrinsic goal of ereader manufacturers, and additionally that the majority (non-manga readers) of the people who insist they need them, don't.