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Well said, Xenophon! There is always a need for backup technology! I plan on keeping a certain percentage of my p-books for that reason (and thy're paid for already, another reason to keep them). But even so, I dream of the day when I have an e-book copy of each and every one, and I buy only e-books from now on. I had that rapped in my teeth in 1999....
After working 2 1/2 years straight (continual heavy overtime) on a Y2K project, I chose to treat myself to several months in Hawaii to recuperate. I loaded two bags with clothes and books, and shipped three more boxes. The two bags (which were small enough so I did not have to check them) weighed 75 pounds (about 35 Kilos). I knew nothing about Honolulu International Airport... I had to strap on those 75 pounds and walk 3/4 of a mile to get from the internation part of the airport to the inter-island part of the airport. I D--ned near killed myself doing it! Now those 50 pounds of books would weigh less than a pound in my handy dandy e-book reader! And I have 50 times as many books. We bookworms can now travel and take the comforts of home (the books!) with us. It's as great an invention as the car.
So say I.
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