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Originally Posted by phenomshel
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.
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You might also want to consider off-site storage. There are a number of sites that offer free storage - often called something gimicky like "online hard drives." I wouldn't replace local storage with them and I'd use more than one (sometimes they disappear) but they are a nice security blanket in case of fire, theft, whatever.