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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Believe me... the idealist in me wishes that very same thing. But he tends to get beat up regularly by the realist in me.  |
PBooks also get discarded by all folks except for book cover hoarders. I was reading pBooks from the Book of the Month Club 60 years ago and not one has survived the more than half century.
Every time I moved I discarded loads of useless garbage. Read books for me become useless garbage. I used to own over 200 Bibles. I now have about TWO left. They also ended up in the garbage heap.
Thus, when we buy a Kindle WiFi eBook, its really for the initial read. After that its all irrelevant. Bibles maybe can last a couple of years at MOST. After that new technology like the Osnova DVJ makes them obsolete as well.
I used to have loads of eBooks read on Adobe and Microsoft Reader. Changes through the years in the software have made all those ebooks unreadable as well.
Frankly, even accounting software evolves through the years and old accounting records preserved over 20 years ago now are unreadable as well. Technology is great but it also is the great destroyer. Even paper deteriorates with age unless preserved in special vacuum sealed glass.
I once came accross an old NY Times from 30 years ago. When I opened the first page, it all fell into dust.