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Originally Posted by Penforhire
But you have to make a continuous effort to update your media. Otherwise you'll be hunting e-bay trying to find an 8" floppy drive (and an OS driver), lol.
Regular books? Not so much effort required, just acid-free printing/paper and good storage.
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You mean you only need a dust free, air conditioned and humidity controlled storage facility? And special gloves and lights for handling them? And a way to keep the small rodents and insects out, of course.
This "digital media will be obsolete" is just silly scare tactics to get you to buy paperbooks. Backing up doesn't take much effort for such small file sizes.