(11 February 2014, 12:17)Lightspeed Wrote: Another reason for the electronic book media is to have something easily portable in an emergency. For example forced and urgent evacuation of a BOL due to fire for example. In such a situation physical books are too bulky to move quickly.
Absolutely, you wouldn't want to be carrying around a dozen+ books in a bug out situation.
(11 February 2014, 11:59)bigpaul Wrote: an electronic system wont be any good when it all goes TU as the power will be off too, as NR says its KNOWLEDGE which will survive all the paper files and food stores and the like. knowledge will be the key to the survival of anyone either here on this site or future generations-if there are any.
Yes that is an issue, but with solar chargers and the low energy usage of modern tanlets, this is becoming less of an issue.
The bigger risk that I see is damage to the equipment, so even if you have it on a tablet, have a USB stick backup as wellso if you device goes down, you "may" (if you are lucky) at some future time be able to find another device to upload the data to.
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