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Originally Posted by robko
I'd challenge that statement about sideloading. I can't say I've ever heard of anyone having a problem sideloading content ONTO the device. The closest you could come is Nook restricting the amount of space you could use for sideloaded content. Increased/changed DRM from the stores preventing you from freeing your book so you can use it elsewhere is a completely different issue to being able to put your DRM free content onto your device.
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I'm an outlier, but between things like all the sales at Fictionwise, Project Gutenberg, the 3000 ebook giveaway at Amazon by Open Road Media, other freebies, replacement of stuff I own on paper when the price drops to $2 or less, and my ebooks purchased from at least 8 different stores, I've never had room for my entire collection on internal memory of any ereader I've purchased (well, maybe my original Nook did when I first bought it). I think the loss of external micro SDHC slots is probably partly because the average ereader owner either doesn't own more than 4 GB or books, or is OK with only loading a dozen or two books on their reader at any given time, but it's probably also partly because it helps promote the retailer walled garden, where the only easy way to read books is to buy from the retailer selling your ereader.
Also, since at least a half-dozen of the retailers I've purchased books from shut down, and either the books can't be downloaded from anyone again, or if they've been moved to another retailer, some books disappear, and even at the retailers that have been there from day one, some books disappear anyway, so if I can't download the books to a computer and sideload them onto my latest ereader, I don't trust the retailers' cloud libraries enough let them be responsible for my library.