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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's no guarantee that you'll still have a paperback, either. What proportion of the paperbacks that you bought 10 years ago do you still have today?
Life is full of uncertainties. When I buy a book, either on paper OR electronically, I certainly don't buy it with the view that it's a "lifetime investment".
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Obviously there is always a risk when one buys a product that it might be damaged or destroyed at some point in the future, but we rarely think that the risk of loosing the product comes from the seller of said product.
Yes, a paper book I buy might be lost or destroyed; for that matter if I am not careful to back data up, the same may be true of eBooks I buy. On the flip side though, DRM has given us a situation where books I buy and still have in my possession are no longer readable by me because of actions taken by the seller of said book.
And by the way, I would say that I have 90% of all the books I have ever purchased.
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Bill