As european i won't say theese are the biggest failures in marketing history, just "subjective failures in US marketing history".
This article was written probably just to generate content/clicks.
Or instead of messing with propertiary programs one could set up an rsync job to pull the books from the actual device. DeDRM still required, btw.
But do humans really requires a guide how to backup stuff from a frickin' mass storage device?
I hate this like the 1000 different "10 hammock mistakes" video on youtube, where all of them telling the same things.
Ah, she is member of "Amazon Associates" program so this article is just a bs for more clicks.
There were so many nice computers with operating systems sporting cool features and the author picked the least interesting one. We already seen this type of "look, i wrote text on my old apple" blogposts so many times. This is terribly sad.
You can do that for example with Haiku, so the comments would be saved as extra attribute. Sadly you would lost it if you move the sources to non-extra-attrib friendy FS.
On Haiku some editor already using this functionality to save the cursor position, window size and position, current selection, etc as attribute.