Very true. If you ever do wind up in litigation. It is a simple matter to down load the information on to a disk than produce all the paper in pretrial discovery. However, depending upon your state's rules of evidence you may need to produce the original at trial. In Connecticut the codified business record exception to the hearsay rule also gets you around the best evidence rule (requiring production of the original document). In Connecticut once a document has been qualified as a business record a copy is admissable in lieu of the original.