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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Entirely of my own making? The problem is entirely of my own making? Do you mean that, literally, no part of the problem is of the ebook companies' making?
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Yes, I'm afraid that is what I mean.
ePub bookstores work completely differently to Amazon. With Amazon, the ecosystem is set up such that the book lives on Amazon's servers, is authorised for a specific device, and sent by Amazon's servers to that device. If Amazon goes out of business, you're up the proverbial creek.
With ePub books, you buy a book from the bookstore, download it to "Adobe Digital Editions" on your computer, and then send it from ADE to your reading device. The bookstore is not involved in the process in any way whatsoever after that initial download, and has neither a need nor an obligation to store your book for you. It is your responsibility, and yours alone, to keep that downloaded file safe.
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As I wrote in my initial post on this thread, "I'm going to be downloading ebooks from all of my libraries that I can [from now on], across all vendors, to my hard drive just as soon as I can." I may even make backups, in addition to the ones that I do on my hard drive. I haven't done it, yet, but I may start backing up also, or instead, to the cloud.
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If you're not making backups it's simply a question of
when, not
if you'll lose all your data, including your books. All hard disks crash - it's simply a question of when it happens.
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Before I quit, I have a question. I may have erred when I said that WTS Books was giving me only 6 days to unzip the file; they may have meant, to download the zip file. As long as I've got the zip file, I have my books from WTS Books in some form on my computer perpetually, right? And once I figure out how or--and I'm not holding my breathe--the representative at Westminster Theological Seminary Bookstore tells me how--I can unzip the file even after 6 (now it's 5) days? Or is there some kind of limit that can be built into the zip file where it will no longer unzip after a certain date or amount of time?
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I don't understand what you mean when you say "once you figure out how to unzip it". What happens when you try to unzip it?