[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by GreenMonkey

I still think that a physical book is far more likely to work than any sort of DRM'd ebook in the decades to come.

Try picking up a digital file from the 1980s or the 1990s and using it as intended.

This is true. Just look st all of the dead computer systems that came and went in the 1980s and 1970s, or the many late gaming consoles. There is a lot of content that is only still usable because someone broke copyright law and made the code work on newer systems (emulators).