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Old 09-21-2015, 03:50 PM   #200
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Originally Posted by koland View Post
Your calculations fail to take into account how much space amazon now wastes on each book for thumbnails, highlights, reviews/goodreads, xray, indexes and other such. Well over the size of the book itself, in most cases. On the older Fires with 8GB storage, they gradually fill up just with the thumbnails, leaving no space at all for an actual book or app; I don't imagine there is much difference on the eink kindles, if you use the thumbnail view (assuming, of course, the stupid things are smart enough to not download thumbnails for those of us that lock them into text only home pages; it not, they fill up with useless dreck for every Kindle, eventually).

An SD card slot solves the "kindle won't last that long" issue, as well as "where is that book I wanted" problems. And the "what size Kindle should I get" issue, as they only need leave enough room for a hundred books and the indexes, then bump you to adding an SD card if you need more room.

Of course, they took them out to reduce call support and because eliminating audio removed a lot of the high-storage users from using Kindles. No doubt they had hundreds of call an hour where people put books on the card, then moved the card to a new Kindle, then it didn't work (not to mention the poor design that required shutting it off to change the card).
1. Kindle fires have the storage broke up into a certain amount for apps and more for books.
2. The goodreads, highlights, x-ray and others notes are not in the book. You have to be on the internet to access them.
3. As far as I know, the kindle e-inks do not have thumbnail views.
4. There are not many books that are even 1M when sent to a kindle.
5. If I remember right any books over 2M, have a note that they will take longer to download.

So the bloat you mention does not get transferred to the ereader.
So no an e-ink does not need an SD slot.
Well now I guess if one only downloaded graphic heavy books it might help but for those books, a color tablet is much better than an e-ink ereader.
Not to mention some graphic intense books cannot be downloaded to an e-ink.

Graphic in this case means pictures and illustrations.
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