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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
That said, pick a device based on your own reading habits. Do you really need that many books loaded on the device all at once? Do you know the number of titles they hold, or are you looking merely at the storage capacity in MB? Realize that non-illustrated books take up less than 2 MB in most cases, so even a conservative guess would put a 2 GB storage capacity as being able to handle at least 1,000 books. I'd say it could probably hold as many as 1,500 if not 2,000, especially if your books are novels. Even if you are buying books with nice covers and other elements, you should certainly be able to hold at least 100 or 200. Just how many books are you wanting to carry around with you? Are extra keydrives for storage okay with you?
I'd be more concerned about the reading experience itself (i.e. the screen type and size, turning pages, getting/purchasing books, etc.) than with the capacity.
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The Kobo comes pre-loaded with 100 books (the classics:
War and Peace, Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, Tale of Two Cities, etc) and I've loaded the 11 ebooks that I purchased from Kobo, 14 pdf books, and 1 that I just took out from the library. Total space taken: 322 MB with 522MB left to go.
Navigation is dead simple with one big 5-way button on the face and 4 buttons on the side to access functions like type size.