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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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.
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wrong - it is exactly the reason to criticize the e-book as a single format in the absence of all others. You may back up and archive religiously, but most people do not. Your argument regarding paper is having been lost to the ages is weak. I can pretty well guarantee that I can put a book in a sealed container and when dug up in a hundred or a thousand years it will still be readable, you could not say that about an ebook on a reader. Paper has a marvellous utility (light, durable, requires no technology to use), ebooks just have a different utility.
I think my point is there is a certain rabid thread of anti paper books in this forum. A more measured approach is to treat these formats as being useful in their correct context.