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Re:“The books will stop working.” by zouhair on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:56PM (#20300147)
The thing you can find a book that is hundreds of years old that is still readable, how long would data in a hard drive last in the wild?
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Re:“The books will stop working.” by asdff on Thursday June 27, 2019 @08:55PM (#20300533)
And who is to say you can even open the file? Not many ebooks are being written in plain text or pdf after all. Usually it's something clunky and proprietary with DRM.
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