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Originally Posted by rtiangha
Yep, and thank god I did. A hard drive crash made me lose my ENTIRE collection and the only backup copy I had was on my Glo HD. Storage is cheap (A 128GB microsd card can be found for less than $40) so why not carry around everything if you can?
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All of my ebooks are backed up onto 4 hard drives, plus on a netbook and a laptop. Same with all of my saved documents and photographs on the 4 hard drives. Losing any of those would be a complete disaster for me. I could at least download the majority of my books again from where I bought them, but the photos and documents would be irreplaceable and heartbreaking to lose the photos. I agree that using an ereader as your backup is the least reliable. I've had more sd cards fail on me in the last several years than I've had hard drives fail in over 30 years of computers.
Honestly the 4GB that's standard on my Glo HDs is more than enough. With my first reader the thought of keeping every book with me was enticing, but around 1100 books I noticed my reader (back then the Sony 350) was slowing down noticeably and realized there was no benefit to keeping every single book on the reader. So I usually keep around 500 books on the reader now, more than enough to give me a really good selection of books even if I went away for months.