I still use way too many DVDs and CDs for my write-once cold storage anti-ransomware needs. Good quality brands have sold their names out (TDK, Phillips, Taiyo

I still use way too many DVDs and CDs for my write-once cold storage anti-ransomware needs. Good quality brands have sold their names out (TDK, Phillips, Taiyo Yuden AKA CMC), but MediaPro still seems to carry a few good brands left for now. Verbatim seems to be among the last brands standing that have a line of good-quality DVDs, if you go for their AZO or medical archive DVDs and HTL Blu-Rays. If I could print text or images (or Paperbak[1] backups?) to hardback books, I would do that instead. There are machines that can take PDFs or postscript data and print a book, softback or hardback in small quantities, which I'd love to do for small files backup via Paperbak (scan that image, reconstruct the file in your computer), as well as my personal journalling (workflow: dictate to wireless headset, phone stores audio recording, syncthing syncs that folder to a folder watched by Dragon Folder Watcher Transcribe Agent, transcribed file is written to a directory which is either batch printed to a hardback book or incrementally written to a single page in an existing blank book, turning pages as needed). While paper may not be amazing at storing large quantities of data in tiny physical space like microfiche or microSD cards, it has a staying power that the latter lacks for both physical-medium, analog-vs-digital-degredation, and binary format obsolescence reasons. So either I grow rich enough to spend the $$$$$ to get a Book Printer[2], or I keep settling for 'good enough' solutions like M-DISC DVDs, Verbatim Blu-Rays, and the online,offline dance of several different personally owned devices that sync up via syncthing, providing eventually consistent redundant copies. [1] http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso_Book_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso_Book_Machine