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eBooks can be backed up and survive a house fire or a flood, though.
by fullstop 2y ago
eBooks can be backed up and survive a house fire or a flood, though.
- thih9 2y agoDepends where the house fire or a flood is. If it's in a data center then they might suddenly disappear[1]. [1]: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire-france-data-center/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...
- lowdownbutter 2y agoIf only we had more than one datacenter.
- thih9 2y ago> Many believed they had been paying for a reliable service with backups, and were shocked that their data was lost.
- maksimur 2y agoYou can keep multiple copies in different locations.
- thih9 2y agoExactly what the provider said. > Customers were not even compensated for lost data, unless they had paid for backups [which were also lost], with the company saying cloud customers should be handling their own disaster recovery plans.
- dowager_dan99 2y agothe challenge is I don't love my books for the content, but for their essence, so ebooks just aren't as valuable. If my physically books were destroyed in a fire I would be sad because i lost the objects, not temporarily lost access to the contents.
- krisoft 2y ago> I don't love my books for the content, but for their essence Curious thing to say. For me it is obvious that the content is the book’s essence.
- julian_t 2y agoFor me it's a bit of both. A programming book that I wrote over 10 years ago - the content is long out of date but the weight reminds me of the effort I put into producing it. Then there's my father's library, all 2000 books of it. I've kept about 50, on a wide variety of topics, and I value them both for the unusual content (Ancient churches of Wales; Jazz record catalogs from the 1940s; English artists from the early 20th century) and for the fact that they remind me of him.
- Aeolun 2y agoYou can buy an extra copy of the book too!