Barely a week in, already down below 1GB

scotty1024 · 03-05-2009, 12:16 PM

Well that 2GB non-expandable memory made me uptight since I was using quite a bit of storage on my Kindle 1.

Now this morning Frommer's landed on my Kindle 2 like a whale madly beaching itself upon a rocky shore and I found myself awakening to discover my shuddering Kindle 2 now had less than 1GB of storage space left. And that after slightly more than 1 week of ownership.

I only have 90MB of MP3's on it and no audible books. All the ebook content is purchased ebook content e.g. I'm not stuffing it with scans, out-of-copyright content or Captain Jack Sparrow's master works.

I'm curious to see if Jeff Bezos will drop by the office with a 4GB Kindle 2 Mark II if I fill it up.

DixieGal · 03-05-2009, 12:28 PM

Sorry, but that beached whale part is so funny!

Which Frommer's?

daffy4u · 03-05-2009, 12:28 PM

I keep a lot of books on my Kindle but not all of them (I tend to move them into storage when I finish them). On K1, I still have about half of the space left. On the 8GB SD card, I barely register as having anything on it. I don't keep music or audiobooks on it. I still use K1 away from home because I don't have a cover for K2 yet.

K2 only has a few books as I'm still testing and playing with it, so I have tons of space.

pilotbob · 03-05-2009, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by scotty1024

I'm curious to see if Jeff Bezos will drop by the office with a 4GB Kindle 2 Mark II if I fill it up.

If you fill up your google mail space more will be added. Would be cool if Kindle worked that way to. Of course your media library can't fill up.

BOb

Slow_hand · 03-05-2009, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scotty1024

I'm curious to see if Jeff Bezos will drop by the office with a 4GB Kindle 2 Mark II if I fill it up.

Just hope it's not Stephen King with a pink one (UR).

Sporadic · 03-05-2009, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scotty1024

Well that 2GB non-expandable memory made me uptight since I was using quite a bit of storage on my Kindle 1.

Now this morning Frommer's landed on my Kindle 2 like a whale madly beaching itself upon a rocky shore and I found myself awakening to discover my shuddering Kindle 2 now had less than 1GB of storage space left. And that after slightly more than 1 week of ownership.

I only have 90MB of MP3's on it and no audible books. All the ebook content is purchased ebook content e.g. I'm not stuffing it with scans, out-of-copyright content or Captain Jack Sparrow's master works.

I'm curious to see if Jeff Bezos will drop by the office with a 4GB Kindle 2 Mark II if I fill it up.

You know that only 1.4GB of the 2GBs are accessible for storage right?

So you are only using 400ish MBs at the moment. Also you can delete your books (purchased from Amazon) and redownload them at anytime.

sirbruce · 03-05-2009, 04:40 PM

I have 800 titles on mine so far and 500MB left. 1MB/book is about right (give that you only start with 1.4GB, and 100-200MB is taken up by search indexes).

S.Canton · 03-05-2009, 07:56 PM

I can empathize, the books really do start to add up in terms of storage space. Thankfully we aren't required to keep all of them on the Kindle.

catsittingstill · 03-05-2009, 08:06 PM

So this "storing them on Amazon's servers" thing--does that work with documents you send yourself? Or only with books you buy from Amazon?

sirbruce · 03-05-2009, 08:22 PM

Only with books you buy from Amazon.

pilotbob · 03-05-2009, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by catsittingstill

So this "storing them on Amazon's servers" thing--does that work with documents you send yourself? Or only with books you buy from Amazon?

Please everyone email them to tell them you want them to support user uploaded books in the media library... and also with whispersync.

BOb

TallMomof2 · 03-05-2009, 09:15 PM

I have less than 300MB left and have 2000+ "books" on mine. Many of those "books" are actually far less than novel length.

AnemicOak · 03-05-2009, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by TallMomof2

I have less than 300MB left and have 2000+ "books" on mine. Many of those "books" are actually far less than novel length.

Have you come up with a way to organize them? I've been keeping around 30-40 on mine as I'm afraid it'd get to be to much otherwise without some way of organizing them.

For now I've got most of my books on my webserver so I can still access them anytime, but it'd be great if you could just upload them to your Amazon account.

fugazied · 03-05-2009, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by sirbruce

I have 800 titles on mine so far and 500GB left. 1MB/book is about right (give that you only start with 1.4GB, and 100-200MB is taken up by search indexes).

Two things:
1) 800 titles!! Yowser, you must be a hardcore reading
2) 500 GB left on your Kindle? Where do I get this type of Kindle

joshewah · 03-05-2009, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Please everyone email them to tell them you want them to support user uploaded books in the media library... and also with whispersync.

BOb

They have web storage they sell already. If they could use the same model and just charge for how much data you use maybe they would do it. I doubt they would just give away free storage for people to put their documents on without paying.

03-05-2009, 12:16 PM	#1
scotty1024 Banned Posts: 1,300 Karma: 1479 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Peoples Republic of Washington Device: Reader / iPhone / Librie / Kindle	Barely a week in, already down below 1GB Well that 2GB non-expandable memory made me uptight since I was using quite a bit of storage on my Kindle 1. Now this morning Frommer's landed on my Kindle 2 like a whale madly beaching itself upon a rocky shore and I found myself awakening to discover my shuddering Kindle 2 now had less than 1GB of storage space left. And that after slightly more than 1 week of ownership. I only have 90MB of MP3's on it and no audible books. All the ebook content is purchased ebook content e.g. I'm not stuffing it with scans, out-of-copyright content or Captain Jack Sparrow's master works. I'm curious to see if Jeff Bezos will drop by the office with a 4GB Kindle 2 Mark II if I fill it up.

03-05-2009, 04:40 PM	#7
sirbruce Provocateur Posts: 1,859 Karma: 505847 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Columbus, OH Device: Kindle Touch, Kindle 2, Kindle DX, iPhone 3GS	I have 800 titles on mine so far and 500MB left. 1MB/book is about right (give that you only start with 1.4GB, and 100-200MB is taken up by search indexes). Last edited by sirbruce; 03-06-2009 at 05:32 AM.

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DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	Sorry, but that beached whale part is so funny! Which Frommer's?

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S.Canton Groupie Posts: 174 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle 2	I can empathize, the books really do start to add up in terms of storage space. Thankfully we aren't required to keep all of them on the Kindle.

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catsittingstill Guru Posts: 643 Karma: 551634 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle 1.0.8, iPod Touch, Kindle Keyboard	So this "storing them on Amazon's servers" thing--does that work with documents you send yourself? Or only with books you buy from Amazon?

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03-05-2009, 09:15 PM	#12
TallMomof2 Kindlephilia Posts: 2,017 Karma: 1139255 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Snowpacolypse 2010 Device: Too many to count	I have less than 300MB left and have 2000+ "books" on mine. Many of those "books" are actually far less than novel length.