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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Well, I'm thinking of all the landfills stuffed with little 5MB flash drives and USB keys that people purchased, transferred the contents to a computer or reader, and threw away as being too small for other uses. I think we sacrifice far too much for disposability now (one of the worst downsides of "frictionless" society).
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I don't throw that stuff out.
(I have some ancient 6GB and 8GB hard drives in a box on a shelf. They got reformatted and used to back up various things I wanted to be sure I had copies of, like my eBooks directory. But I'm a tech, comfortable popping the hood and playing with hardware, and the drives
are too small for most purposes.)
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But if someone figures out how to encode the books onto those cardboard "gift cards" with a magnetic stripe on the back, something that's less wasteful and a bit more biodegradable, I'll be a lot more responsive to the idea.
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Probably doable now, in theory. The issue is the capacity, and what, exactly, you'll use to read them.
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Dennis