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Re:Are paper books really disappearing? by duaneb on Monday January 25, 2016 @10:18AM (#10967601)
> you can never actually lose one forever

unless ANYTHING happens to that part of the cloud. In which case, you've lost your entire collection forever.

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Re:Are paper books really disappearing? by JoeAltmaier on Monday January 25, 2016 @10:25AM (#10967638)
Books are all still in some cloud service somewhere. I can safely predict, the human race will never lose a book ever again. Barring an apocalypse.

And you can also have a fire at your house. Which is quite a bit more likely?

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Re:Are paper books really disappearing? by duaneb on Monday January 25, 2016 @12:09PM (#10968352)
Sure, but your access to the books is (at least currently) highly restricted, legally. I'd say it's much more likely I'm going to have some issue with accessing my kindle books (who knows, maybe I break my kindle) than I am having a fire.
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