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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
With digital obsolesence, it's not so much that the format becomes unreadable and the medium it is stored on becomes unreadable. I can open an old trunk and pull out a century-old book and still read it. If I pull out an 20 year old piece of digital storage, I might not even be able to find something to load it on.
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That's what I'm most afraid of with regard to e-books.
For some reason, I don't have the same fear with regard to DVD's and Blu-Rays; records can still be played, and there are still new record players to be had. I expect that I'll be able to play DVD's and Blu-Rays for at least another 50 years.
Also, I have found that I don't need to keep movies anymore, apart from my absolute favorites. It's different with books: If I read it, I want to own it. It was like that with movies also, but I seem to have grown out of it, or something.
Maybe it's because most movies are only 90-120 minute affairs, while a book can easily take 10+ hours to read and therefore I value them more nowadays.