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Originally Posted by rmclachlan
One of the dangers of e-books is their ephemeral nature compared to the real world equivalent...
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Originally Posted by acidzebra
Yes, porting digital data to a different format is completely impossible now and forever. All the data of 2 years ago is all gone. And all paper books still exist.
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It's called
backing up, people (as AZ so sarcastically points out). I have readable data from a decade ago on my PC, because I
back up and archive. It ain't hard. And plenty of information committed to paper has been lost to the ages. It's a poor reason to criticize the e-book.