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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Because they are designed to meet the needs of typical users, not (ahem) hoarders like me and other folks around here who've been gathering ebooks since the PDA era. 
A typical heavy reader (already atypical) might acquire a hundred or two hundred ebooks a year and would take ten years to fill up a 2-4GB ereader. The issue isn't so much the cost of the SD card slot or the bigger flash chip as the fact that 95-99% of buyers (especially of Kindle buyers) would receive no benefit from the feature.
Face it, when it comes to ebooks, we're one-percenters.  |
And there is also the fact to consider, that even many many of the heavy readers
still don't care, since we have computers and stuff to keep our books on.
Absolute necessity for organization purposes -- calibre rules.
And so an ereader only really needs to store enough books for the foreseeable future (a year or so is more than fair).
I also have a
lot of ebooks -- though I can't promise to have been collecting since the PDA era.
But I limit the number of books on my Kindle at any one time.