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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
And how might this be accomplished for all electronic media. A clause in the will stating that you want all of your storage devices destroyed unread? Seems silly as anyone who could actually use this stuff could probably get it elsewhere.
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A lot depends upon what that digital content is.
In days of yore, upon the demise of scholars, and their ilk, lawsuits were fought over who would obtain their physical library. This wasn't due to interest in the books it contained, but rather, the notes that were written in those books, and the journals that the scholar wrote.
Some ebook reading software has the ability to mark up the ebook, just like one can markup a pbook. Those notes that one makes in the ebook, can be as valuable as the notes made in the pbook.
Whilst _Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone_ can be picked up from a number of ebook stores, a copy with your notations about the passages in it that are from _The Book of Common Prayer_, is a one of a kind item. Those notes are not available anywhere else.