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Originally Posted by HarryT
Speed and storage space are the main factors for me. Having seen videos of the new Sony, sure it's a lot faster than the older model, but it's still much slower than my iPad. I want to have my entire Egyptology reference library at my fingertips, and that's currently about 27GB of files, so I couldn't live with the 8GB (is that right?) of storage offered by the Sony. I also really like the capabilities offered by the "GoodReader" app on the iPad, in particular the ease it brings to rapidly flipping between multiple documents, something which is critical for academic research use, and the ability to easily load documents from virtually any online source or Cloud storage service.
The Sony seems like an excellent device, but it doesn't fit my personal requirements.
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Harry, out of curiousity (I know virtually nothing about egyptology), this reference library is it so large because it contains a lot of pictures or because the text itself is also stored as a picture? If the latter is the case, have you tried reducing the size by OCR'ing the text and compressing the pictures to a resolution which fits that of the display?
In any case it's indeed regrettable that the RP1 has only 8GB of internal storage and no SD card. The latter is particularly hard to understand. Fortunally, I don't require a lot of storage for my documents, so I will be okay with 8GB, but such an SD card would have allowed additional hundreds of GB and taken no weight nor space at all :-(