Thread: Amazon has banned my account - my Kindle is now a (partial) brick.
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Old 04-10-2009, 07:18 AM   #212
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I have a collection of nice hardbacks too, astra, but I don't regard them as equivalent to paperback or eBooks. I think it's simply unrealistic to expect to be able to read digital media indefinitely. Formats come and go; media comes and goes. How many of us still have a floppy disk drive on our PC? I don't have to worry about what's going to be around in 50 years time, but I strongly suspect that none of our current eBook formats will still be "readable" then. I equally strongly suspect that my prized hardbacks will still be "readable", though. Many of them are already well over a century old, and there's no reason they can't last for another century.
Then why should we pay hardback price for something that will not last?
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