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Originally Posted by Patricia
I can see your point, Manchuia, and agree with you to a great extent. But I can't risk losing my work, so it gets saved (in several places) and in formats that I can change and update as necessary.
I can see that everything works for your mother at the moment. But there comes a time when the computer breaks down irrevocably. If the data is in obsolete formats then it's gone forever. And that's want I want to avoid.
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.. it just dawned on me.
What work are you saving? It's a reader. The original work can be saved in whatever format, but you aren't creating any new work through a Sony reader or through the Kindle?
Are we talking about file formats of the future (.doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf) or are we talking about wanting to read the books that we bought from the store (.lrf, .azw) in the future.
The former I can see the concern over losing your work, the latter harks back to the question: Why should any company make sure your item is future proof?