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		mark_l_watson on Nov 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Ecosystem Do you have very old records, old books, etc? Are you glad you can still enjoy them? I don't worry so much about walled gardens as long as I can make backups to Ogg Vorbis (etc.) formats from iTunes purchases. I am a happy customer of Amazon but I make permanent copies in open formats of a small percentage of Kindle books I buy that I might want in 10 years. I have a lot of family and friends who are not techies. I advise them (and help) to save stuff they buy.

astrange on Nov 24, 2012 [–]

There's no sense in making a backup of a lossy format to a different lossy format. The decoders aren't going to go anywhere; just keep the original file.

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