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Old 03-05-2009, 05:06 PM   #2
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512MB is over 500 normal sized ebooks

The current crop of ebook readers just aren't very good at handling even a few hundred ebooks (in terms of accessing easily), let along the ten thousand that would fit in 8GB.

I have a 2GB card in my CyBook, with over 2,000 ebooks on it and it's not full yet. I'm really hoping that the next firmware update improves the navigation in the library, because if I did want to read that 2,000th book, it would take me five minutes to page to it.

eBooks don't take up much space compared to music or video.


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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern View Post
Being new to the world of eBooks, I'm wondering why the digital reader devices are generally so scanty with built-in memory. Memory chip these days are quite inexpensive. One can easily buy a 8GB SD memory card for $20, yet the built-in memory of most of these devices are around 512MB or 256MB.

Why?
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