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Originally Posted by HarryT
What does Amazon actually say about how long they will keep your books available for? Fictionwise guarantee three months. Sorry, joblack, but regardless of what your "Founding Fathers" may have said, I honestly think it's unrealistic to regard an eBook as a "lifetime investment".
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But, Harry, this is exactly why I started collecting ebooks. To replace a physical book library that was lost to me in a move/divorce situation. Physical books cost the earth to ship. There is no reason that a "standard" format such as .rtf or .txt cannot last many, many years. I back my books up three or four times, on different media. I want these books to last my lifetime and beyond. I read things over and over and over again. The whole attraction of ebooks for me in the first place was the archival abilities. I don't have a Kindle because I don't want to be locked into Amazon's format, that's exactly why I bought the EZ Reader. I was tempted to get a Kindle 1 to access Amazon's selection, but no more. I'll wait til the publishers get their heads out of the sand, or I'll scan my own copies of the book for use on the reader. To me, my ebooks ARE a "lifetime investment". Realistic or not, that's how it is, and I feel it is very realistic.