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Originally Posted by radius
Ah, but if you do that then you will need a) USB on the go chips/driver/software, and b) to carry a dongle to plug in those USB memory sticks. Then you need to complicate the on-board user interface by having a way to copy books into the device's library. Otherwise you'd have to read with a dongle and USB stick hanging off your e-reader. That doesn't sound like a good experience to me.
Contrast with some form of SD which you can just open a flap and stick into a slot.
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I was responding to the concern of the device being thick enough for the USB port. (And by the way, since a microSD slot has nonzero thickness, the USB's impact would be even less significant...), not to any other factor of the desirability of USB attached storage vs. microSD storage.
Let's do that now!
I agree with you that MicroSD would be preferable to current USB OTG, both for the form factor, and the data integration, as you say.
BUT:
1. USB 3.x and USB C connectors should result in directly-connectable, nano-size mass storage devices that are more widely compatible and more durable than a MicroSD card. I'm predicting the ubiquitousness of stuff like in the next few years. That will mitigate the form factor issue, when using the same sort of attached storage data integration as a MicroSD, no copying required.
But if you did want or need to copy data.....
2. Most people are absolutely fine with the current user experience of downloading stuff from the cloud to their device, whether it be from Amazon, or a Calibre server, or whatever, and there is no reason the experience, and UI, of getting the data from an attached device should need to be any different. It would just be faster, and not dependent on the network.