[Rootman]

So, while cleaning in my office the other day I was admiring the few hundred paper books that I still own, down from about a thousand before a life change forced me to sell a great portion of them.

I've managed to get quite a few hundred of the classic titles from sources like Project Gutenberg and bought a lot more from sources like Amazon Kindle.

I know how much I enjoy re-reading paper books once in a great while and I happen to wonder, what's going to become of my DRMd titles in the (not too) distant future should Amazon go belly up and the devices I read the DRM material fail, how will I get these titles back? Are we to assume that ebooks are another disposable media and unlike paper books they just "go away" once the DRM validation is no longer there? I mean Amazon, and B&N aren't going to be there forever.

I've been reading on a Kindle, and now an Amazon tablet for like 5 years now, and before you know it a decade or more will pass. Do these "old" ebooks just go the way of the dodo?