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Old 05-15-2015, 01:19 AM   #5
ValerieAnne
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
How necessary is the SD slot anyway? ereaders usually have ~3.5 GB of available storage (factoring in the dedicated OS partition). You can fit thousands of books on that, assuming an average 1MB per book.


That being said, the latest Kindles cannot be jailbroken without hardware modding, and the jailbreak is needed to manage collections with calibre.
If you want to manage collections with calibre, you will want to get a Kobo, they support this off the shelf. (And they have an SD slot anyway.)
I'm not sure how necessary an SD slot would be, I have about 3500 epubs at the moment and I add to that weekly. I suppose I wouldn't need to add all the books, I just like having them all there. I know I have PDF files of magazines and photography books as well, that I don't need to add to the SD card though, lol.

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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
Those specs say the Kobo Aura H2O. I can't tell of it fits your budget as you have given no indication of where you are.
I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

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Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
When you say genre/author/series are you referring to a folder type structure where you'd have genre folders with author folders inside that and series folders inside those or???

I assume you mean NetGalley? Last I checked you can get books with both Kindle DRM or Adobe DRM so you shouldn't need a Kindle or Kindle app.

Your only Kindle options for an eInk reader would be an actual Kindle or an Android based device like some of the Onyx Boox or Boyue devices, which run Android apps. Be sure to find out how well the Kindle app works on them before buying one though as IIRC some versions work better than others.
Yes, I meant NetGalley. I always put the r without realizing it. Oops. Thanks for the correction. Oh, nice. It said it sends the file to your kindle e-mail address. They said it won't work on the cloud version of Kindle Reader or the PC version.

Thanks for the recommendations of Boox and Boyue. I'll check them out/look for them.

My ideal set up for shelves/collections on the device would be 'Genre|Author|Series (if available)' as you meantioned, each folder within the other.
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