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1. How many books (approximately, obviously) can the internal memory hold?
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300
Depends on how many dictionaries, fonts, backgrounds, and other stuff you put on the reader. They all occupy the same memory
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2. If I get an SDHC card for additional memory, does it slow down boot time at all? If so, does it get significantly slower as the size of the card gets bigger?
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No.
Boot takes about 12 seconds regardless of number of books on card and/or memory.
There are certain cards that make your reader boot twice.
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3. Would I be foolish not to get the wall charger? Or is that an unnecessary additional expense (I'm on a student budget) and the USB charger generally sufficient for most purposes? I know you can't tell me about *my* usage, just trying to get an idea of general usage...
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Wall charger that comes with PocketBook 360 is in fact a generic USB charger
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4. Does anyone use the wrist lash that comes with the "comfort" model? Is it something that is particularly good to have, or more on the unnecessary side? Could I use a wrist lash from my digital camera, or is it somehow proprietary on the Pocketbook?
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You can use just any generic wrist leash that was attached to the $2 USB memory stick or whatever gadget as long as you do not mind that your wrist leash does not have text PocketBook on it (you can always get creative with a permanent marker or make an embroidery ;-) ).
Or, you can have mine. Except, I suspect, that the post from here would cost much, MUCH more then a generic wrist leash is worth.
There are two points for attachment for wrist leash, so you could make an elastic strip, similar to one that cameras have to hold the reader on your hand
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5. I've seen some discussion about the availability of En-En dictionaries like Oxford, Webster (newer than 1913), etc., but haven't seen anything that gave me a clear idea if they are really available and where/how to get them if so. Did I miss that, or is it still an open question?
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There are some dictionaries available.
Mostly Russian stuff.
They (the pocketBook company) have promised that they plan direct support for Lingovo commercialy available dictionaries in the next firmware. But do not hold your breath. A corrected version of 15.1 firmware is long overdue at the moment.
For example Czech distributor bundles CZ-EN and EN-CZ dictionary they have converted from freely available stardict dictionary. It is possible to convert stardict dictionary to format for PocketBook. It is just an non trivial undertaking.
There used to be site called bookfast.org with interesting themes, programs for PocketBook, and dictionaries, but now it says the domain has expired. I hope it will be back.
There are some dictionaries available, I do not know what their legal status is outside Russia and Ukraine.