Thread: Seriousness eBooks: a danger to posterity?
View Single Post
Old 04-17-2009, 03:36 PM   #38
Xenophon
curmudgeon
Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Xenophon ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Xenophon's Avatar
 
Posts: 1,487
Karma: 5748190
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Redwood City, CA USA
Device: Kobo Aura HD, (ex)nook, (ex)PRS-700, (ex)PRS-500
I would rate non-DRM eBooks as less of a thread to posterity than pulp paper (not acid-free, that is). But, of course, you need electricity and a fairly high tech level to use/decode eBooks.

Paper books printed on archival-grade paper last amazingly well with only modest care requirements. But books on pulp paper will be gone gone gone in well under a century.

Xenophon
Xenophon is offline   Reply With Quote