Thread: CNN interview: Physical books gone in 5 years
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Old 10-20-2010, 02:33 PM   #25
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That's when you start preaching about backups.

One is far more likely to loose p-books to natural catastrophe than e-books that have been backed up offsite as well as onsite.
The problem is that e-books can become unreadable due to the mere passage of time.

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/26409.html

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"Digital media can be very ephemeral. They can decay," says Anne Okerson, of the Council on Library and Information Resources. "For example, will a Word or Word Perfect document still be readable in 10 years, several versions later? Mine aren't ... how about a CD? Doubtful."
Not to mention problems with media. I've got a bunch of data on 3.5 inch floppy disks, but nowadays I do not have easy access to a 3.5 floppy disk drive. And that was only about 15 years worth of obsolescence.
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