![]() ![]() I’ve been using Endnote since 1997, and now have over 9000 references stored in it. The thing that I am NOW most paranoid about is my Endnote library. The reduction in size of storage gadgetry and the development of digital online repositories means that all those endangered materials are transportable as well as retrievable, even if the ownership of the cloud based materials is pretty questionable. These days I use cloud storage as well as an external hard and a thumb drive. But I still manage to make at least three copies of everything on top of the usual automated computer back-up. I’ve got more slightly more casual about texts in subsequent years. I even went so far as to buy a fireproof safe drawer, just in case. Like a greedy and irrational squirrel, I also kept various versions – whole text, chapter by chapter, text file, word file. I was so paranoid about losing my text that I had several sets of discs stashed around the house and at work. I did my PhD in the days of floppy discs. Or… Or… The list of possible disasters is endless. Nooooooo… it blows away in a freak storm … Or, they’ve written in longhand in notebooks and an evil stranger happens on them and steals them and then they publish them as their own work… or the computer gets destroyed in a freak tornado…. They haven’t got to the photo-copier yet. You know those films you see where the author loses their manuscript? They only have one laboriously typed copy.
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