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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. Re:ebooks or kindle books? by amiga3D · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about when you don't have internet access?

  2. Obvious reason... by ilsaloving · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because then it would be trivial for you to also read books that you *didn't* get from Amazon. And we can't have that, now can we?

  3. Re:what's the problem? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  4. 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.