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bobcdy · 01-27-2014, 12:53 AM

I much appreciate ebooks, but there's a problem with building a keeper library of ebooks because the formats for ebooks will evolve over time. Eventually ebooks such as epubs or mobi will become unreadable, just as material stored on 8" floppy drives of the 1970's are unreadable now except with help by tech museums that still maintain the 8" drives and interface them to newer computers. Paper books written in the 1600s are still readable today. So mama probably is right: "in 10 years, those will be gone"

01-27-2014, 12:53 AM	#76
bobcdy Fanatic Posts: 527 Karma: 1048576 Join Date: May 2009 Device: bebook; prs-950; nook simple touch; HTC Jetstream tablet	I much appreciate ebooks, but there's a problem with building a keeper library of ebooks because the formats for ebooks will evolve over time. Eventually ebooks such as epubs or mobi will become unreadable, just as material stored on 8" floppy drives of the 1970's are unreadable now except with help by tech museums that still maintain the 8" drives and interface them to newer computers. Paper books written in the 1600s are still readable today. So mama probably is right: "in 10 years, those will be gone" Last edited by bobcdy; 01-27-2014 at 12:58 AM.