Thread: Why did the Kindle lose its memory card slot?
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Old 11-30-2009, 03:03 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by wayner View Post
Why did Amazon remove the memory card slot on the Kindle 2? These cards are so cheap you could easily add 16GB to your Kindle and store tons of books and music.
This got asked when the K2 came out: Amazon comments on lack of SD card slot and user-removable battery

"Compared to the original Kindle, the Kindle 2 makes it convenient to keep content in one place," Tritschler said today. And the built-in 2GB of storage in the Kindle 2 means 1.4GB is available to the user -- almost eight times the 180MB of storage offered in the original Kindle, he said.

"That's room for 1,500 books," Tritschler said, noting that any book a Kindle user buys is backed up on Amazon's servers -- and is available to the reader at any time. "There's no need for additional storage."

The official Amazon answer: there's no SD card because you don't need that much storage capacity.
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