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Originally Posted by Marcy
It's totally not the same. Your device requires electricity and technical know-how. If civilization collapsed your device would quickly be useless. Even assuming some sort of solar generator, it would only be good for a few years until the device gave out. Unless you could build a new one yourself, which I would find hard to believe.
-Marcy
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Yes and if civilization collapsed your car would be useless, as well as just about everything else. But a bit more back to reality..... a simple house fire would destroy all your pbooks. I keep an offsite (safety deposit box.... $25 a year) back up of all my digital photos, mp3's and ebooks. So that same simple fire would be terrible, but I could recover many of the important items in my life. Anything paper (books and photos) decay and degrade. Digital can be reformatted to the next medium. So a hundred years from now when my grand kids look at pics of our family, or read a book I left them.... It does not matter what they use. Their computing devices (whatever they may me) will be able to reformat the data so they can use it. Where where your paperback be?