While I completely agree that not having a SD card reader is really a stupid choice, I don't see it really making the Max 2 hard to use for a researcher.
My bibliography directory contains a lot of research papers, including many I stored at some point because I thought I might want to read them but never did - read: more than I really need. The whole directory structure takes up less than 2Gb of space, something that will easily hold in the Max 2 storage space.
OK, then the papers and books I tend to read don't have too much graphics - it's mostly text - but even with much more than that, the storage on the Max 2 is very adequate for my needs. Where it's more of a problem is that these documents have to compete for space with other files (in my case: scanned scenarios for wargame Advanced Squad Leader, of which I have several hundreds/thousands), and a normal thing for me to do would be to have all the maths documents on a SD card, with others on a different card, and to switch between one and the other depending on usage; this I cannot do.
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