Re:E-books at local libraries: a fight between publishers an...
by selimthegrim on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:52AM
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Temperature variation? What was their advertised lifetime?
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Re:E-books at local libraries: a fight between publishers an...
by ForHackernews on Monday September 16, 2019 @11:57AM
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I don't know. They were only consumer-grade disks. It hardly matters because I don't own any machine with a working 5.25" drive anyway. Some of my old files I did copy onto CD-Rs in the early 2000s -- I wonder if those are still readable?
The point is that it's actually fairly hard to beat acid-free paper for archival storage.