Gregory's Server@AndersBaerbock @internetarchive Digital books, and by extension anything digital, becomes obsolete and unreadable if not either replaced or maintained. A good example of this is the Domesday Book. The physical version from almost 1000 years ago is still readable, but an electronic version from the 80s is almost impossible to look through now because no modern computers can read it and no one bothered to maintain it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Project
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mmm... that's questionable since the electronic age just started and everything is still somehow volatile. The maintenance of the book-reading software to chase the moving operative systems is also a business different from publishing, so far mostly intermediaries like Amazon engage in capturing customers with the promise of maintaining their own software forever.
But that's a talk for another thread. Have a great Sunday.