Using the above graph, you'd think than an 8GB was enough for a Kindle, and you'd be right - if books are the only thing you look at.īut some people use Kindles for comic books too, and they can take up a lot more space. How much space do other Kindle documents take up? We've therefore used the usable space in the sums above. The Kindle system itself takes up about 2GB, so if you buy an 8GB ereader you're actually getting about 6GB usable space, and if you pick up the 32GB model you're looking at about 30GB space. If you've looked at how many ebooks fit on a certain storage space of ereader, and are scratching your heads thinking 'the math there doesn't add up' - you're actually correct. Obviously you won't be downloading the same title 20,000 times, but it gives a sense of how many books you can get at one time. You Can Trust Our Reviews Since 1982, PCMag has.

In short, there's plenty of space for thousands, if not tens of thousands, of books. For even more storage, Amazon offers the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (which doesn't come with ads by default) with 32GB for 189.99. The table above should give you some sense as to how many ebooks fit on a Kindle. A single gigabyte, or GB, equals a million kilobytes, or KB.

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