2 GB NOOK SIMPLE TOUCH ONLY HAS 240MB OF MEMORY

[Gotglock]

I would like to point out when you purchase a Computer it tells you that your hard drive is xxxGB's, You never have access to xxx as part of this is occupied by the OS(operating system for you non tech types) you are running.

[Asac]

Just spent the last few hours trying to figure out what my nook has only 240MB of memory. Thankfully I found your rant.

B&N, I am disappointed. Why would you advertise 2GB of space when you know damn well that half of the total storage is off the table when you take the nook out of the package? Granted, you do state on your website "2GB2 Holds up to 1,000 books (1GB for content; 750 MB reserved for B&N content)", but the large majority of people who buy your product probably couldn't even define a MB, or even figure out what 250MB of information actually is.

When I buy a computer, I understand some of my harddrive will be used for the operating system, but I certainly don't expect to be left with 1/8 of the storage space that was advertised. Same goes for other devices like iPods and smartphones.

My point is, why was 2GB the starting point for the storage specification? Why should you even need to make a side note that half of the total storage is already taken before the product leaves its packaging? 12.5% of 2GB is available to the user for personal storage. That's pretty slim.

 *Nook is great though, just surprised when I checked my available storage space*

[geertm]

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Asac wrote:

Just spent the last few hours trying to figure out what my nook has only 240MB of memory. Thankfully I found your rant.

B&N, I am disappointed. Why would you advertise 2GB of space when you know damn well that half of the total storage is off the table when you take the nook out of the package? Granted, you do state on your website "2GB2 Holds up to 1,000 books (1GB for content; 750 MB reserved for B&N content)", but the large majority of people who buy your product probably couldn't even define a MB, or even figure out what 250MB of information actually is.

When I buy a computer, I understand some of my harddrive will be used for the operating system, but I certainly don't expect to be left with 1/8 of the storage space that was advertised. Same goes for other devices like iPods and smartphones.

My point is, why was 2GB the starting point for the storage specification? Why should you even need to make a side note that half of the total storage is already taken before the product leaves its packaging? 12.5% of 2GB is available to the user for personal storage. That's pretty slim.

 *Nook is great though, just surprised when I checked my available storage space*

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a. You bought a store branded ereader. The reason that ereader is so cheap is because B&N wants/hopes  to sell you content. So limiting the amount of space avaiable for B&N content is not a good idea from a business point of view.

b. Price for a 2GB micro-SD card at Amazon: $0.99 to $5.

[AlanNJ Inspired Bibliophile]

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geertm wrote:

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Asac wrote:

Just spent the last few hours trying to figure out what my nook has only 240MB of memory. Thankfully I found your rant.

B&N, I am disappointed. Why would you advertise 2GB of space when you know damn well that half of the total storage is off the table when you take the nook out of the package? Granted, you do state on your website "2GB2 Holds up to 1,000 books (1GB for content; 750 MB reserved for B&N content)", but the large majority of people who buy your product probably couldn't even define a MB, or even figure out what 250MB of information actually is.

When I buy a computer, I understand some of my harddrive will be used for the operating system, but I certainly don't expect to be left with 1/8 of the storage space that was advertised. Same goes for other devices like iPods and smartphones.

My point is, why was 2GB the starting point for the storage specification? Why should you even need to make a side note that half of the total storage is already taken before the product leaves its packaging? 12.5% of 2GB is available to the user for personal storage. That's pretty slim.

 *Nook is great though, just surprised when I checked my available storage space*

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a. You bought a store branded ereader. The reason that ereader is so cheap is because B&N wants/hopes  to sell you content. So limiting the amount of space avaiable for B&N content is not a good idea from a business point of view.

b. Price for a 2GB micro-SD card at Amazon: $0.99 to $5.

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Also why is it necessary to carry all of your books with you at all times?  I've never understood that.

[ilexq]

Why would you want to divide up your library and fuss with the back-and-forth of file transfers on a regular basis, when you have the option to carry your whole library with you? I never could understand that.

(Just sayin' - different strokes for different folks, Alan.)

[AlanNJ Inspired Bibliophile]

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ilexq wrote:

Why would you want to divide up your library and fuss with the back-and-forth of file transfers on a regular basis, when you have the option to carry your whole library with you? I never could understand that.

(Just sayin' - different strokes for different folks, Alan.)

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I absolutely agree that what works for some doesn't work for others.  I would probably keep more of my books on my N2E if the shelving system was better.  As it stands now, though, if I had all my books on my N2E I probably couldn't find anything unless I knew specifically what I was looking for.

[keriflur]

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ilexq wrote:

Why would you want to divide up your library and fuss with the back-and-forth of file transfers on a regular basis, when you have the option to carry your whole library with you? I never could understand that.

(Just sayin' - different strokes for different folks, Alan.)

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What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?

[Painterroy]

I don't what a lot of people are complaining about. Do you really have to have 1000 books on your nook, I have around 200 books on my Nook & I don't read all of them all at once. I usually have about 3 - 4 books that i read at the same time. If I ever get to 1000 books, it won't bother me at all to take some books off the Nook and replace them with the ones I want to read. Again do you really need to carry 1000 books around with you at once?

[P_B_]

The problem with sideloading is you can't set up Shelves unless you copy the files to your PC then to the Nook - oops no space to do so once you hit the 240Meg.

Now if you could set up Shelves on the SD then that would probably helps make a lot more people happier.

[kamas716]

Shelving on the NST is pretty pointless.  It's more like categorizing rather than shelving.

[EON4200]

Just felt the need to add my 2 cents here...

SAYING that the reeder holds "1000s of books" when it will hold no more than 200 is a blatant deception.

Especially when the reader has a micro SD port yet DOESNT LET YOU ACCESS it... Why Even Have the Port?!?!

Im tired of companies making Awesome hardware then packing it with softwear that snuffs all of its capabilities..

"Do you REALLY NEED 1000's of books on your ereader?"

YES, i DO. Isnt that the whole advantage of having an Ereader?? You can access your whole library on the go... Otherwise, it'd be like buying an Ipod that only holds 15 mp3s... "do you REALLY need your entire music collection on your Ipod?" The obvious answer is YES.. thats the Whole Idea.

Some people have a wide array of interests and have libraries to reflect those interests.

In an era when you can Easily store 32+ GIGS on a micro sd card, theres NO REASON for them to nerf the storage capacity like they did..

And they SERIOUSLY Wonder why people Root their devices?? BN, You Leave us No Choice BUT to root our devices when you use softwear to nerf them to death.

[Byteguy]

You are confused.  This thread is about the Nook Simple Touch.

You can access the SD card.  I do it every day.  Every single one of my books is on the SD card.  The only limit is that the max size card it will read is 32GB (hey, I have a camera that won't read anything over 1GB, it's so old).

It can easily hold 1,000 books.  It all depends on the book.  Some are huge, some are small, some take almost no room at all.  Even the 240MBs of user-memory in the base machine can hold a ton. I just took a look at a bunch of books on mine.  They were about 200K each.  That's over 1,000 in the 240MB partition alone.  I had a 2GB card that I wasn't using and put that in my Nook.  That's 10,000 books (if I did my math sort-of right).

If you happen to be talking about a different Nook, you might want to complain in THAT forum instead.  Us "Simples" have plenty of room.

[keriflur]

Die, zombie thread, DIE!

*whacks thread with baseball bat*

[Caerwyn]

Hee! Hey, I was grateful to find it so easily last night when my Nook proclaimed, "Whoa, man. 370 books is, like, too much."

[h2oskierc]

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keriflur wrote:

Die, zombie thread, DIE!

*whacks thread with baseball bat*

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You might try a Lobo.  I hear they work a lot better on Zombies than a baseball bat.

[BeachCatFan]

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Byteguy wrote:

You are confused.  This thread is about the Nook Simple Touch.

You can access the SD card.  I do it every day.  Every single one of my books is on the SD card.  The only limit is that the max size card it will read is 32GB (hey, I have a camera that won't read anything over 1GB, it's so old).

It can easily hold 1,000 books.  It all depends on the book.  Some are huge, some are small, some take almost no room at all.  Even the 240MBs of user-memory in the base machine can hold a ton. I just took a look at a bunch of books on mine.  They were about 200K each.  That's over 1,000 in the 240MB partition alone.  I had a 2GB card that I wasn't using and put that in my Nook.  That's 10,000 books (if I did my math sort-of right).

If you happen to be talking about a different Nook, you might want to complain in THAT forum instead.  Us "Simples" have plenty of room.

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Actually, no we do not. I have a little over 600 books on my NST and while I keep archiving books, I also keep getting the "problem downloading books because you are out of space" message. Because I have multiple NOOKS, I hate archiving books. That means that they are unavailable on my N1E, which my husband is using, as well as my NC, which I lent to a friend to see if she wanted to buy one. Also, I use the app on my iPad, so I lose the ability to read those books on my iPad if I do the archive thing!! To me, there is a great deal of difference between 1,000 books and 600 books!

Please explain to me how you can get B&N books on the SD card...I would much rather do that than archive books I have not yet read.

[roustabout]

A couple of points here in zombieland:  the original peeve was about memory reserved for sideloaded content (240 mb)

A newer peeve is about memory reserved for paid content (about 1000 mbyte - but you can still run out, as BCF has noticed.)  

A fix for both issues is to put an sd card into your NST or NSTG, and point your BN library at it.  You can then have an NST or NSTG with as much storage as you like for both BN and sideloaded content.  You can manage both BN and sideloaded content with Calbre.  As a side benefit, you're more attractive to prospective romantic partners, smell better, and produce 30 % less flatus per week.  *

This is a very simple hack, and does not require that you root your device.  If you want to undo the hack, it's a matter of resetting your NST or NSTG, or of asking me to write the reverse script.

Instructions for putting your paid BN content on yoru sdcard are at 

http://nookworks.blogspot.com/2012/05/fat-glowworm-using-your-sd-card-as.html

 * all customers receive Nook-related benefits;  studies are ongoing as to how widespread other benefits are

[keriflur]

I swear this thread has more lives than a bewitched cat. 

[roustabout]

Keri notes "this thread has more lives than a bewitched cat."

Well, it isn't a zombie, technically, but it may be so able to kick indefinitely because I installed linux on it, following the badger instructions as best I could.  

[BeachCatFan]

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roustabout wrote:

A couple of points here in zombieland:  the original peeve was about memory reserved for sideloaded content (240 mb)

A newer peeve is about memory reserved for paid content (about 1000 mbyte - but you can still run out, as BCF has noticed.)  

A fix for both issues is to put an sd card into your NST or NSTG, and point your BN library at it.  You can then have an NST or NSTG with as much storage as you like for both BN and sideloaded content.  You can manage both BN and sideloaded content with Calbre.  As a side benefit, you're more attractive to prospective romantic partners, smell better, and produce 30 % less flatus per week.  *

This is a very simple hack, and does not require that you root your device.  If you want to undo the hack, it's a matter of resetting your NST or NSTG, or of asking me to write the reverse script.

Instructions for putting your paid BN content on yoru sdcard are at 

http://nookworks.blogspot.com/2012/05/fat-glowworm-using-your-sd-card-as.html

 * all customers receive Nook-related benefits;  studies are ongoing as to how widespread other benefits are

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Thanks!!