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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
One point not mentioned here though is the fact that those purchases are not transferrable to your progeny after death. As far as I know, typical DRM laws allow a person to remove DRM for their own usage only; descendants reading e-books de-DRMed by their parents are effectively committing piracy.
Physical books (or compact discs or DVDs) remain in the family. As we are moving towards a completely digital media landscape, we are depriving our children not only from potentially valuable assets, but also from the sheer pleasure of re-discovering works which, at least, entertained their parents, but also possibly had a major role in shaping their identities. This is a pretty hefty price to pay for adjustable font sizes and the like.
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That is a very "pie in the sky" view. Most of my reading material will not be wanted by any of my kids or grandkids. When we started purging our print books, very few were wanted by anyone in the family. I rarely buy books anymore, most are borrowed, because I don't need to keep them after reading. Of course there were exceptions to that, but most were unwanted.
We had a garage sale some years ago, and couldn't give old fiction books away.
As far as DVD's...check some you've had for 15+ years. There is a good chance the disc has degraded and can no longer be played. Even when stored in good covers away from light, the physical disc can and will deteriorate. And out of our large collection of DVD movies, very few would be wanted by family members. Because the younger generation has moved away from physical containers for their shows/movies/music.
One big exception to the above...vinyl records. They don't deteriorate if well cared for. And they sound better on a good system.