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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Right, and I see no reason why you couldn't have multiple ebooks cached locally.
Heck, the reader may not even have internet access so you need to load it from "the cloud" to your PC then to your reader. Actually, this is pretty similar to what happens now... your ebooks are available on "the cloud" (say fictionwise). When you want to read it you cache it (d/l to your PC) locally. If you want it on your reader you transfer it from the PC's cache to your reader.
The only main difference here I think would be that Google is going to give you a "reader" that you can load anywhere. Think web app similar to having Google Mail with Google Gears (off line mode) enabled.
BOb
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Fair enough. I hope you have the right version of it, Bob. My understanding of the article is similar to yours.
I don't trust "cloud" computing either though - even though every book I've bought is available for redownload from the retailer (mainly Books on Board), I still have multiple copies stashed on different media (and some offsite, too) in case of hard drive failure, or heaven forbid, something happening like a house fire. I am not about to take chances with my books. If Books on Board folds next year - without those backups and if something happened I'd be out both my books AND a sizable investment. Not happening.
To be fair though - using "the cloud" to access things when out and about would be handy.