The maintaining copies thing makes some sense to me - in the event that we lose technological continuity ebooks might be harder to recover than pbooks. But barring that... duh. I seem to have managed somehow to keep material that I first obtained on 5" Commodore 64 disks readable since about 1985 so I'm pretty confident that todays much more connectable computers will continue to make rolling forwards easier. Assuming, of course, that I avoid DRM at all costs.
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