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hermance · 08-05-2009, 02:45 PM

I've pretty much settled on getting an iPod Touch as my first foray into doing any e-book reading. (I like the mutli-usefulness of it, and figure that if I find I am doing a lot of e-reading, then I can purchase a dedicated reader.)

However, I'm not sure what size to get. I have a 120G "Classic" iPod that mainly stays at home on a docking station or comes with me on longer vacations, though not on work trips. So, I'm not looking for the Touch to store a great deal of media--probably a movie or tv show or two, a subset of my music collection, and some undetermined amount of reading material.

I think the urge is to just go with the 32GB to be on the safe side, but I also worry that I'm falling into the trap that "bigger is always better" and paying more than I really need to. I suspect that 16GB would do just fine. That said, I've never used eBooks at all, so I'm unclear on how much storage they would take up. I certainly want to put enough on the Touch that I can always be reading. I'm a professor, so I do a good bit of reading for work. I'll most likely put primarily work reading on there, though will likely include some pleasure stuff as well. (I work with a lot of material published before copyright, which I mostly get in PDF from GoogleBooks currently. Not sure how that would change when using the Touch.)

I'd appreciate any thoughts people have on this.

08-05-2009, 02:45 PM	#1
hermance Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2009 Device: none	Size recommendations? I've pretty much settled on getting an iPod Touch as my first foray into doing any e-book reading. (I like the mutli-usefulness of it, and figure that if I find I am doing a lot of e-reading, then I can purchase a dedicated reader.) However, I'm not sure what size to get. I have a 120G "Classic" iPod that mainly stays at home on a docking station or comes with me on longer vacations, though not on work trips. So, I'm not looking for the Touch to store a great deal of media--probably a movie or tv show or two, a subset of my music collection, and some undetermined amount of reading material. I think the urge is to just go with the 32GB to be on the safe side, but I also worry that I'm falling into the trap that "bigger is always better" and paying more than I really need to. I suspect that 16GB would do just fine. That said, I've never used eBooks at all, so I'm unclear on how much storage they would take up. I certainly want to put enough on the Touch that I can always be reading. I'm a professor, so I do a good bit of reading for work. I'll most likely put primarily work reading on there, though will likely include some pleasure stuff as well. (I work with a lot of material published before copyright, which I mostly get in PDF from GoogleBooks currently. Not sure how that would change when using the Touch.) I'd appreciate any thoughts people have on this.