Thread: Opinion: Would you destroy physical book in exchange for a electronic version?
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Old 05-02-2011, 09:57 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by mldavis2 View Post
A pBook does not need a backup copy. Do you trust your eReader to remain functional and a viable retrieval device 20 years hence?
This for me is the greatest argument against DRM, and secondarily for an open format like ePub. I like to have an un-DRM'd copy of every book I own, and these are backed up (including offsite). I know these will always be accessible in the future because the format is open. If my house burns down I'll have lost some (to me at least) unreplaceable pbooks but I'll still have my ebooks.

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