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Originally Posted by Rainmaker
what if the hard disks caught fire. ¿how would you recover the missing things?
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What if the physical book is on fire? What if the storehouse burns down?
If you remove the foundation layer, any structure will break. Why should a physical book be inherently more secure/longliving than a physical storage for digital data?
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Even nowadays, something still require physical backup (counting books, lawsuits, the writing of propierty, etc)
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Indeed. I don't think it's wise or a good idea. I don't think this stuff survives long enough to be of much use. Not to mention that some day you might want to read it without destroying it. (Crumbling, etc...)
Don't get me wrong, I like physical books and all that. But I don't understand why they're considered special and eternal.
True, old books lived a long time. But can the same be said about TODAYS books?
Somehow I don't think todays mass books will last that long - just like mass digital media doesn't.
I'm sure we can produce media that last millenia - digital or otherwise. But you'd lose the original either way, so why not use the more compact version?
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Slightly off-topic: Why is he racing Google? Isn't that a waste of energy that could be used otherwise?
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[edit] I too once destroyed a book to scan it. It was either that or type it by hand. I stand by my decision.
A books value is in its content, not the paper it's made of.