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Originally Posted by Tony1988
At this point ebook readers should know the score. Worrying about if one is gonna have an ebook 20 years later is kinda silly. If it is indeed a worry for people it's probably best just to stick with paper.
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I'm building an electronic reference library, much of it books I already have on paper. I have more and more problems with paper: the weight and volume (for my arthritic hands as well as for my walls), the degrading paper, the sensitivity to light, dryness, wetness, characters that are sometimes becoming difficult to read, the difficulty finding a book among thousands, a sentence in a book, are what first come to mind. And I back-up my books, several hard drives at home and at least one away. It is easy with at present under 10 Gb, unlike music or photos which run in the hundreds.
Of course I still have many paper books: art books, beautiful books, books that don't exist in electronic versions, manuals and such. And books do furnish a room, and I do have an attachment to many.