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Originally Posted by AGB
Hmm, so your point was to show that an idiot who doesn't back up his work somehow reflects bad on the notion of backing up one's work?
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The point was that the physical permanence of a given medium doesn't mean the user is necessarily safe; sometimes multiple digital copies trump a single hard copy.
Most of us haven't got space for multiple hard copies of everything, especially as we get older. Those who continue buying/making physical copies tend to show up on the Hoarding Channel.
That's an argument in favor of eBooks over physical books -- as long as a reliable backup system's in place, ideally allowing whatever kinds of backup files the user finds most helpful.
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Originally Posted by AGB
No, not as plain text. As the document is for real, keeping the formatting.
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One complaint on that thread was that some notes couldn't be restored even when they
were backed up -- moved books, changed paths, etc. A plain text option would allow for that compromise when the format of the notes was impossible to resurrect. Then again, you've sort of got that with XML.
I expect she's now typing her notes elsewhere instead of using her reader's stylus.