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$50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card

Posted by Soulskill on from the things-that-make-you-go-hmmm dept.

Robotech_Master writes: For all that the $50 Fire tablet has a 128 GB capable SDXC card slot that outclasses every other tablet in its price range, and it evolved out of Amazon's flagship e-book reader, it strangely lacks the ability to index e-books on that card. This seems like a strange oversight, given that every other media app on the tablet uses that card for downloading and storage, and its 5 GB usable internal memory isn't a lot for people who have a large library of picture-heavy e-books—especially if they want to install other apps, too.

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  1. Comic collector gripes about first world problems by Roarkk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next stories: "Etch-a-sketch has poor error correction, limited pixel count" "Kindle Paperwhite web browsing experience sub-par, no Angry Birds"

  2. Re:ebooks or kindle books? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can easily have 10-100 books on your fire

    This is one of the few things ebooks will never capture. Deleting ebooks will never match the pleasure of burning heretic literature.

  3. All your books... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    >all of your ebooks will be stored in amazon's cloud. why would they be on the SD card?

    So... like,

    Somebody set up us the Fire
    Main screen turn on.
    All your eBooks are now belong to Amazon
    You have no chance to survive make your time.
    Move to SD cards
    For great justice.

  4. Re:what's the problem? by stephanruby · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about, "I have hundreds of books that I didn't purchase through Amazon, and therefore aren't in the Amazon cloud."

    An Amazon drone strike is on its way to your location as we speak.