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Amazon Japan's Manga-Ready Kindle Has 8 Times the Storage (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the affinity-for-manga dept.

Amazon Japan has an unusual challenge with the Kindle: it not only has to cater to your typical bookworm, but to a local fondness for image-heavy (and thus storage-intensive) manga books. What it's going to do? Release a special model just for those readers, apparently. Engadget reports: The company has introduced a manga version of the Kindle Paperwhite with 32GB of storage, or eight times as much space as the run-of-the-mill 4GB model. You could cram every single volume of Asari-chan, Kochikame and Naruto into this e-reader, Amazon says. The manga Kindle is available for pre-order now, with pricing commanding a slight premium over the usual Paperwhite. You're spending about $157 or $118.

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  1. I really don't understand by aslagle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why wouldn't Amazon market this internationally? It's not like no one outside of Japan likes manga...

    I've had to banish my manga collection from my Kindle Voyage because one relatively short manga can take up the space of 100 other books. I'd love to be able to fit them all on my Kindle.

    1. Re:I really don't understand by GyroDragona · · Score: 2

      Uhh, Kindle devices have an SD slot.

      https://www.google.com/search?...

      Try again when you have even the most basic understanding of the hardware, you shill.

      Most of the fire tablets do have an SD card slot. None of the e-ink display having kindles do though. The article was talking about one of the e-ink models.

    2. Re:I really don't understand by chmod+a+x+mojo · · Score: 2

      Yep, the original kindle V.1 is both modern and still being sold.... oh wait, you still can't read, dumbass with the UID that signed up in the same month that I did.

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    3. Re:I really don't understand by Aboroth · · Score: 2

      You're still using an ancient Kindle yet everyone ELSE is a "fucking moron". Got it.

      Replacing a device that works for its intended purpose with one that doesn't, simply because one wants something newer, is what I would call a "fucking moron."

  2. They need it by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

    The amount of manga published is incredible... They have fortnightly and monthly anthologies running to 700+ pages covering every genera. People often only read a subset of the stories, but I guess for contract reasons Amazon probably can't unbundle them.

    I read that it's been causing Amazon problems with data consumption too. If you subscribe to regular publications they send them over the cell network for free to your device. No problem when it's 100k for some magazine articles and the odd small photo, but a bit of an issue when it's 750 pages of drawings.

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  3. If only there was some possible way to ... by tazan · · Score: 3

    If only there was some possible way to add storage to a device. Maybe some kind of hole somewhere where you could plug in some kind of device that would expand memory. Maybe someone could invent that, and we wouldn't need a new model.

  4. Re:Amazon Japan's Manga-Ready Kindle by Tx · · Score: 2

    How could Amazon ensure that they can reach out and delete books from your Kindle if they are stored on a removable card?

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