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Originally Posted by crossi
That might be very well for you if you never reread or have few ebooks. I have about 900 ebooks probably average cost of $5 so that is about $4500. For me that's enough that I feel the need to take precautions just like I lock my car when I leave it. Not quite like replacing some groceries. Not taking precautions with that much money would just be stupid.
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Nothing wrong with precautions. And I do possibly have less than 1,000 in actual cost of groceries. I have a small business selling these groceries as cooked gourmet meals which I spend/have spent many hours preparing. Perhaps again worth less than $4500, but possibly worth more in that I would not be able to meet my contracts. My insurance won't cover that. Still I would survive.
And 900 ebooks if you want to reread them all or even most is a significant loss. I doubt I bought more than 200 paper books a year but most did cost more than $5.00 without even counting inflation. possibly I have spent $100,000 on paper books in my lifetime if you include textbooks and manuals and hundreds of books given as gifts. They are gone now (don't know about the gifts), or I would be having to crawl over them to open a window I think.
Not saying that you shouldn't spend time worrying over your possible loss of ebooks if that is what you are happy doing, I just don't understand why it seems so important compared to other losses that can and do happen.
Helen