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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. 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.