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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the massive amount of logiing and on-device database updates done on kindles and that changes are made to blocks on flash memory by copying the block with modifications to a new location and marking the old block as empty.
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I wonder what they are doing so much logging of?
"Log entry #26359: Device is sitting here with the same books on it as yesterday"
"Log entry #26360: Ditto"
"Log entry #26361: Ditto"
Compared to a multi-purpose computer, tablets, or a smart phone, an eReader does amazingly little processing of anything. Their storage contents are near-static, only occasional changes relatively speaking.
I have never heard of an eReader wearing out its flash memory. Doesn't mean that it couldn't happen. But have you ever heard of it actually happening (other than a defect - I'm talking normal wear and tear)?