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

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.

Comments

Re:Sure to get fixed soon

[halivar]

That was a the Fire Phone team.

Re:what's the problem?

[Anonymous Coward]

You can load books not purchased through Amazon into your Kindle and they are also stored in the Amazon cloud.

Re: what's the problem?

[Robotech_Master]

You can open it, yes. But unlike for any book that is indexed, such as the books on an e-ink Kindle, it loses your place in a manually opened book from the SD card as soon as you close it. This eliminates one of the biggest advantages of an e-reader over paper--the ability to pick it up right where you left off without needing a bookmark.