[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

The august snapshot I tried *used* 400+ Mb and offered up 64Mb for books.

I am really really curious how you got that reading of the space available in /mnt/storage ? The only way that I know of to get the size of the internal storage is to SSH into Linux and ask.

Here is the output of df -h in the OpenInpot 15 August snapshot:

/mnt$ df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root               50.0M     25.9M    24.1M  52% /
tmpfs                    10.0M      8.0K     10.0M   0% /dev
tmpfs                    10.0M         0      10.0M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    14.8M      4.0K     14.8M   0% /tmp
tmpfs                    14.8M      8.0K     14.8M   0% /var/run
tmpfs                    14.8M         0      14.8M   0% /var/tmp
tmpfs                    14.8M     12.0K     14.8M  0% /var/log
/dev/mtdblock_STORAGE
                        450.0M     19.2M    430.8M   4% /mnt/storage

As you can see the space available on /mnt/storage is 450.0 MegaBytes, of which I am currently using 19.2 MegaBytes, leaving 430.8 MegaBytes remaining.

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Maybe I misread the report, but the impression I got from the query thread was that the intent was to use most if not all the onboard flash and leave the SD card as the bookshelf.

A few people did seem to misread what dottedmag wrote in that post, but as you can see from the text I quoted previously, it did not say that. I can not say with any authority what they actually intend, but my reading of his post indicates that we will still have 454 MegaBytes for fonts, books, etc.. As you can see by the df output, we currently have 450 MegaBytes, so there is not much reason to use an SD at this point in time, unless it is more convenient for you.

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Which is fine by me, anyway.

As to battery life, I still get two to three weeks' reading per charge with an 8GB SDHC card plugged in full time.

Different strokes and all that, I guess.

I have no argument with that at all. My preference is to use the internal storage and conserve battery power for reading. I suppose that a lot of people may find the current methods of accessing the internal storage a bit too "techie" for them, but apparently there are future plans to eventually export the internal filesystem via USB. The only reason that I responded to your post is that you wrote "future versions will use most of the onboard storage for apps", which at the very least, is not a confirmed fact.