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Old 05-06-2016, 02:56 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
Well, as it happens I am a firm believer in vanilla ice cream. But I don't have a problem with other peoples' ice cream preferences.

As for my material ambitions regarding ereaders, I am quite aware that people have different needs, and I try hard to avoid projecting my needs on other people.
Nevertheless, I still feel expandable memory is something no one needs, ever (except in special circumstances like manga)... because a basic 4GB device can hold several thousands of books and supply me (a prolific and fast reader) with enough reading material for several years. Even taking into account the need to store old favorites just in case. Even taking into account a wide variety of eclectic tastes.
And you can surely find time to switch out your ondevice library say once a month.

A less eclectic, less prolific, slower reader who doesn't bother to save hundreds of old favorites -- or any combination thereof -- is even less likely than I am to run through that several-year supply of reading material in a measly month.

I have furthermore never once had anyone satisfactorily explain to me why they need more storage space for non-manga ebooks.
I did establish that manga readers apparently need more space than I first assumed was ever necessary, and on those grounds I have made sure to specify that distinction ever since.
Though there was the guy who insisted he needed an offline archive of Wikipedia. I wasn't impressed with his "need"....

The current builtin storage is already overkill, and you want even more?
As I said, it is an irrational attachment. I can't possibly discuss your needs effectively with an irrational attachment in the way.



And given your further irrational belief in the inherent need for chaos, I am not convinced I want to know what your needs are.
Can we top that vanilla ice cream with white chocolate and raspberries?
Be even better.
Now I do know someone that if she wanted to put her entire kindle purchases on an ereader, she would need extra storage. But even keeping up with 3% on her ereader is enough of a pain. Note that 3% is 300 or so books.
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