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Originally Posted by HarryT
The current crop of devices generally seem to be getting 1GB or more of storage space. That's enough for many, many hundreds of books without needing to bother with memory cards.
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Harry is likely, as usual, right that 1GB of strorage space may be enough. However, the benefit of an SD card slot is other than carrying around your entire library. With SD card slots you can swap music and non-DRM eBooks very quickly and easily. You can read someone's presentation or paper or thesis easily.
Another point is that I am noticing that some ADE ebooks, because of the graphics, and illustrations, eat up a hell of a lot more memory than some of us are used to. As we go up from 4 level to 8 level to 16 level Grey Scale... each title uses more and more memory.
I am not arguing with Harry that, for the time being, 1GB may be enough. I am just saying that the SD card slot is still a hell of a feature to have on an eBook Reader and may prove more valuable as formats and eBooks change. Astak is sticking with devices that offer the SD card slot!