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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Ebooks are tiny -- typically 1mb or less. An ebook will cost you $0.000062 to back up to an external hard drive and takes virtually no time. Backing up your files is virtually free.
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So you download the book on your kindle and copy it on your computer, or you download it on your computer and copy it on your kindle. Strip DRM, if it is there, connect your external hard drive, wait for the computer so scan through 200 GB of data (it takes longer if you have small files, but you will also have larger files, for example photos), and copy the file after looking for the right folder. Repeat for the backup of the backup.
Or am I wrong and you do the backup on a server?
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
The rest of our society gets it, by the way. 
Oh yeah, another advantage I forgot to mention: You can't rip out the first 2% of a paper book and carry it as a sample for your convenience. |
Then do me a favor and explain it to me. And also explain why you would want to carry 2% of the book as a sample.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Or school-related, or for people who just like to mark up their books. (Paper is easier to annotate, by the way, but you can't edit or erase hand-written notes.)
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For all students school=work. People usually regard work related expenses differently than personal related expenses. And it creeps me out that there are people who would just like to mark up their books.