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EBooks: E is for Ephemeral?
Readers are worried about the fragility of eBooks. They're worried that they'll lose their library of eMatter when their hard disc crashes or they drop their eBook reading device. They should indeed worry. Magnetic media of all types are notoriously impermanent. And what's worse, computer formats come and go and hardware becomes outdated and old, comfy software gets left behind when the rest of the system ascends to higher levels of development.
One hedge against losing your eBooks is redundancy, otherwise known as "backing up your data." With eBooks, though, backing up can be inhibited and complicated by copy protection schemes. EBook files become associated, in some instances, with specific devices, and if you drop that specific device to the concrete, you might be stuck with a bunch of backup files that you can't read on your new, replacement device.
This is where I get confused. I've been all through Microsoft's website regarding Microsoft Reader.
With unencrypted eBooks, there's no problem
...Magazines and newspapers are perfectly fine as disposable eMatter, at least for those who doesn't own a bird or a puppy.
While it would be nice to buy an eBook and be able to place it in your permanent library, it could be the case that eBooks are simply not well suited to collectors. And is that really such an intolerable state of affairs? After all, life is but a dewdrop, or something like that. (read the complete and long article)

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