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Old 12-15-2009, 07:28 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by desertgrandma View Post
With all due respect........if my house burns down, my paper books are gone forever.

When I lost my data on my hard drive, my computer guy was able to retrieve them for me.

When I get my laptop back, I will back those puppies up in at least 4 different ways.

As God is my witness, I will never lose a book again!!

(with apologies to "Gone with the Wind")
The problem with ebooks is not that you lose them - but that you lose access to them even though you still have the files. With server-based DRM and limited device activations any DRM ebooks can become unreadable just because you've either used all your device activations and can't activate a new device or the server is down.

DRM-free ebooks are easy to back up - DRM ones, not so much.
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