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Originally Posted by ProDigit
From another perspective,
If you don't need the SD card slot, and can fit your library in internal memory, you could be saving battery by doing so.
If you're unaware of this, you may be using up more battery, paying for an SD card that can get lost, stolen with your device, or break down.
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Nowadays you have to go out of your way to find a reader that supports SD cards, so if you have one, you probably bought it with that in mind.
But aside from that, I'm not arguing that they use some power. But when I'm looking at a device that can run weeks between charges, the extra amount used on the SD card is just worth it for the extra storage. My Aura has, what? 2.5GB for internal storage? It's not bad, but my 16GB SD card has 3GB of books on it now.
You could say that I don't need that many books and I should remove ones I've read. But with storage being that negligible, why bother? The minimal extra power usage is worth it to me.
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Internal SSDs last longer, and if your device is stolen, you might already have $15-25 available for a new one (if you didn't invest it in an SD card).
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That's one way to look at it. But then a Kobo Aura ONE costs $230 for 8GB of storage. The Kobo Aura ONE Limited Edition is $280 for 32GB of storage (prices from
Kobo's website). You can buy a 64GB SD card for $25.