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Old 07-16-2012, 04:59 AM   #49
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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn View Post
With presently avaiable technology, yes. I was pinning my hope to some future development. Something not available today. Twenty years ago I couldn't fathom being able to carry around a lightweight tablet with a screen looking like paper and being able to instantly purchase downloadable books from an entirely different country. Technology has enabled me to do that, perhaps twenty years from now technology will enable us to treat eBooks the way we treat physical books?
As the separate discussions about expansion slots and ever shrinking memory on new devices show, the cloud is exactly where they want everything to be. Where we don't have full control over our data. So I don't see your dream coming true, since the powers that be don't want it to happen.
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