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Old 09-18-2015, 06:18 PM   #166
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9 out 0f 10 times people put cases on the devices and there is no opening or easy access to the sdcard. I know that I have to remove all my cases to get to the sdcard slot.
Glued cases are why you can't replace batteries and why landfills are filling up with too much tech that could be used otherwise.
Again, then why is Amazon releasing a $50 tablet with an sdcard slot along with its other new tablets?
My case has the spot for the sdcard open.
Samsung tablet cheap case.
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Old 09-18-2015, 06:22 PM   #167
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By which I mean you must include an SD card slot in order to appeal to prospective customers -- the average consumer wants expandable storage on their multipurpose tablet.
<Ahem>ipad. <cough>Kindle Fire..
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Old 09-18-2015, 06:42 PM   #168
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Very few e-ink ereader owners care about SD card slots. Although the ones that do care sure make a lot of noise.
Sales are telling, though.
I don't care about card readers for my K7. My books reside in the cloud and I only keep about 10 of them on my Kindle at any one time. I currently have over 2.5 GB of free space that'll stay that way, pretty much forever.
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Old 09-18-2015, 06:56 PM   #169
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<Ahem>ipad. <cough>Kindle Fire..
Scuse me.
You know this reminds me of when Amazon was advertising free wifi on their ereaders. Many people thought that meant they could access the Internet anywhere. Or thought it was like an iPod and put all their music on it.
Or both.
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Old 09-18-2015, 07:35 PM   #170
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I don't care about card readers for my K7. My books reside in the cloud and I only keep about 10 of them on my Kindle at any one time. I currently have over 2.5 GB of free space that'll stay that way, pretty much forever.
Yep, it is not like eBooks take up much space, and PDFs suck on eInk devices so not much need to have them loaded in great numbers. An SDCard on a tablet is a good thing, but overkill on an eInk. If you popped a 32GB card into a Kindle, it would hold more books than anyone could possibly read in a lifetime, or at the very least, the lifetime of the Kindle. Not sure why some people think they need thousands of books on a Kindle. If they use those documents for research, then a Kindle is the worst choice for that, they need a tablet or computer. Loading thousands of books on a Kindle is just asking for trouble, trouble named "indexing".
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Old 09-19-2015, 03:24 AM   #171
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Would CS really know now?
CS wouldn't say something like that unless is was on a script.
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Old 09-19-2015, 03:45 AM   #172
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I don't care about card readers for my K7. My books reside in the cloud and I only keep about 10 of them on my Kindle at any one time. I currently have over 2.5 GB of free space that'll stay that way, pretty much forever.
Some people like to stay offline. Like me
I'm always offline because the minute I go online amazon pushes some update on my PW2 and messes up my jailbreak and screensaver and I'm back to their crappy screensaver routine. I like to see the book cover on my kindle when I ''close'' the book.
That being said, I don't care for SD cards in ereaders. PW2 has 4GB of space and I have so many books on it, I couldn't read them all in the next 10 years.
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Old 09-19-2015, 05:19 AM   #173
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That being said, I don't care for SD cards in ereaders. PW2 has 4GB of space and I have so many books on it, I couldn't read them all in the next 10 years.
My PW2 is one of the first ones, which only had 2GB and I have hardly any space left on it as it is; I may need to start removing books from it soon which is not something I'm particularly keen on doing - I like having all my books on my device.
Without necessarily wanting an SD card slot, a reasonable amount of on-board storage is a must.

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Old 09-19-2015, 05:58 AM   #174
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I remember that. I was in Japan atm and my bf got me the PW2 when it came out. Jap. model had 4GB from the get go because of the manga. But USA model was 2GB. But as far as I know shortly after that they raised USA model to 4GB as well? At least I think they did.
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Old 09-19-2015, 06:43 AM   #175
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Dunno about the US, but in the UK it was I think at least 6 months before they quietly snuck in 4GB in the PW2. I do remember being mightily annoyed with them for that one.
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Old 09-19-2015, 10:07 AM   #176
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Some people like to stay offline.
Quite understandable given Amazon's penchant for stealth-upgrading and shutting down customization functionality without user permission. And who knows if jail-break protection will always work?
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Old 09-19-2015, 01:05 PM   #177
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There's a micro SD slot on the new £50 Fire tablet so I'm sure it wouldn't cost much to add to a Kindle.

My PW2 is coming up to 2 years old, so I'm waiting to see if a Voyage v2 appears
The kindle has no audio capability anymore. With that, there goes what little rationale for an sd slot.
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I wonder if they put something in there I would actually want, which is:

1. More formatting options. With many books I need to set the font to 5 (from left) to get a size which corresponds to a normal paperback. Everything else is just tiny and tinier. Setting the font to 6 makes it HUGE... So it's often either too small, or too large.
2. A fix for the damned reading time problem. Very often I'm reading a book, and it says "5 hours remaining", which would be accurate. (I've timed it several times.) Then, out of the blue, it drops to exactly half that time, and the Kindle is then stuck there. If I didn't know the option ";ReadingTimeReset" (search for that, and then go back to the book), the reading time function would be of no use at all.

Fix these two things, and my KPW1 would actually be perfect.
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I wonder if they put something in there I would actually want, which is:

1. More formatting options. With many books I need to set the font to 5 (from left) to get a size which corresponds to a normal paperback. Everything else is just tiny and tinier. Setting the font to 6 makes it HUGE... So it's often either too small, or too large....
I'd like another ratio in the gearbox myself. Something between the current size 5 and 6.
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I'd like another ratio in the gearbox myself. Something between the current size 5 and 6.
In the past I've read books on size 4 for ages, but suddenly I needed to go to size 5 to keep the font size the same as it was. I don't know why. Maybe Calibre changed something in the KPW output profile. I'm now messing around with the base font settings, but I never had to do that before.

edit: setting the font size to 12 point and a corresponding keymap wasn't that big a success... the fonts became so tiny that I needed to set them to 7 on the Kindle.

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