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Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books by serf on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @07:57PM (#33617479)
go buy a cheesy romance novel from the 70s at any local thrift store, chances are good that the pages have warped, yellowed, and have become brittle. They will generally fall from the binding easily, or break apart in a jig-saw fashion under bending load.

I use 'cheesy romance novel' as the benchmark, as they were notoriously poorly bound with cheap materials to reduce cost per unit to the extreme.

Yes, a human could read the broken pages pretty easily with effort, but one of the niceties about the book format is that it reduces the user burden to such a degree as to allow them to become entrenched in the material rather than the physical good.

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Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books by movedx on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:21PM (#33617647)
This. My wife runs a podcast about trashy novels and some of the books she gets her hands on... or not, as it were in some cases, because the digital version is a must.
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Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books by ncallaway on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:01PM (#33617506)
> Trade paperbacks will wear out in months or years

>> go buy a cheesy romance novel from the 70s at any local thrift store

Okay, but a "cheesy romance novel from the 70s" is 50 years old at this point. That's...a very generous interpretation of "will wear out in months or years". I suppose it's true that "500 months" is technically months, but...that's not how that phrase is typically used.

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Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books by version_five on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:08PM (#33617560)
(also the fact that it's for sale in a thrift store is a dead giveaway that it's not completely worn out yet; are there many 3-1/4" floppies, or even CDs, storage media from 20-30 years ago, max, that are readily picked up by a layperson and perused now?)
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Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books by chaxor on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:35PM (#33617740)
It'sbeginning to be a hassle now to even extract info off of external drives with usb-A, due to all the migration to USB-C. More devices will likely switch to wireless only, fed by big companies' shitty "cloud".

Hopefully some will fight the good fight to keep at least desktops with ports long enough in order to allow for a personal NAS and IPFS to keep our docs accessible.

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Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books by lazyasciiart on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @09:53PM (#33618225)
No it isn’t: I’ve found books missing half the pages in a thrift store.
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