One could argue that even paper is not completely safe, especially if you bought a book from Banksy (but that's starting to get absurd). If we eliminate the Ba

One could argue that even paper is not completely safe, especially if you bought a book from Banksy (but that's starting to get absurd). If we eliminate the Banksy absurdity, I believe that there is some value to the argument: it's simply physically impossible to shut down a paper book because it's a piece of "technology" that's easy to understand and inspect. In contrast, an e-book is always just thousands or millions of bits that you usually don't physically inspect. HN readers may generally be tech-savvy enough to confidently tell which books or platforms are immune to remote-shutdown, but you may be giving too much credit to the proverbial grandma (or even mother, as my own mom definitely wouldn't have any idea).