To this day, an eReader as can be a Kindle has a number of advantages when it comes to carrying on a vacation with all those books that we want to read. This versatility allows him to distance himself from those printed books that need a good space to take us a good variety of them to go to read them whenever we want.
The funny thing about the Kindle is that as you fill the internal memory more that you have available with all those eBooks, the more weight it takes as we learned today. A surprising fact that surely you could not think that it is, although it must be said that it has its reason for being and is rather anecdotal, since when you take it, with a full memory, you will not feel differences in weight.
The reality is that computer science professor John D. Kubiatowicz of the University of California has decided respond to that greater weight with hundreds of eBooks loaded on a Kindle, as claimed by the newspaper The New York Times.
The additional weight is practically immeasurable, but there is an additional weight, just 10-18 grams. This is because the transistors in Kindle flash memory distinguish between ones and zeros when capturing electrons. More data means more "trapped" electrons, which is in itself a heavier weight for the Kindle.
So that extra weight comes only from the device when it stores more energy. Kubiatowicz indicated that the extra power of a flash memory of 4GB has in its full load 1,7 times 10-5 joules, which translates to those 10-18 grams of weight difference.
We will never notice that difference in weight when you have a Kindle in hand, but it will always be good to remember a friend when you want to impress him with some curious data from your Kindle.