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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Most Readers do not have an SD card slot. That's nothing new. To be honest, I've never actually used an external SD card with any of my Readers that have one. 6 years with the H2O (come the end of November) and I've never once put an SD card in the SD card slot.
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However, the Boox devices are much more than simple readers. They are also note taking devices which many people use to annotate PDFs and for other such work. They also allow users to install apps.
As such, the internal memory of these devices can fill up fairly quickly. Having an external card slot would be useful for people who need to expand the memory capacity of the device.
Fortunately, the newer models seem to be employing OTG so that one could simply connect a USB drive to the device. That is not so with older models like the Note Pro.
But, even were older models to have OTG capabilities, it would mean that one would need to carry around an OTG cable and USB thumb drive. Just more stuff to carry about and potentially lose. Hence, an external card slot would be very beneficial to many people interested in such devices as opposed to those who can get by with a simple ereader. However, even then, one sees many people lamenting the lack of external card slots in places such as the Kobo forum.