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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Welcome Barbara.
I depend on my pc because I KNOW that it isn't going to disappear. I am able to make as many backups of my books as I want in case something happens to my pc or one of my tablets/phone/mp3 player.
We have ALL seen bookstores, and clouds disappear taking peoples books with them when they go!
I am determined not to have that happen to me, and the only way that I can ensure that, is to download my books to devices that I control, the first device being my pc.
I am perfectly content to be old fashioned. I believe in true ownership of the things I buy. If you want to risk your money disappearing into never neverland when whomever you bought it from goes poof, be my guest.
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This.
All that "Cloud" crap, that is the old fashioned stuff. We had "clouds" in the 60's, 70's: dumb terminals connecting to a big computer that provided the CPU-power and the storage, because it was just unfeasible to own one yourself, both with regard to cost and needed space.
In the late 70's and early 80's, owning a computer became possible for hobbyists, and since the 90's it's almost a given that a household has a single computer. Since the 2000's, most people have their own computer, or even more than one.
And now we'd need to throw out all of that, and go back to the old-fashioned way of storing all of our stuff off-site, having books, audio and games streamed to us from platforms we have no control over, just as it was in the 60's?
Not in my lifetime. If I can't store it on my own computer, back it up, and use it as long as I want even after the publisher/producer of the product ceases to exist, I don't want it. When in a nostalgic mood, I'll still play computer games whose creators and publishers have been gone for 10-15 years or more.
Even though I've only been present in the e-book world, I've already experienced an e-book company bankrupt: Diesel. If that had been cloud only, I would have lost over 200 books.