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Originally Posted by Anthem
Lock-in or no, the Cloud is an amazing convenience.
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When an eBook is less than 1MByte (no embedded fonts), I wonder why would it be a nuisance to carry a SD or USB stick with, that has probably more space than the cloud has, and doesn't ask for network (WiFi or LTE), in vacations even for free (as for roaming costs) and so on. And it doesn't depend on the whims of a provider (be it Apple or any other) and it's also secure.
You loose that stick, got another one for peanuts and reload it from the home archive. Yes, the stick or SD is only a "working copy"
While it may be luring now, clouds are nothing else than a storage in someone else's house. You're bound by his rules, to the degree he'd choose to implement. He can even use your goods from that deposit, dump them (locking your account), or let other people have access to them.