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The issue here is with DRM and having to move across storage media. I still have ebooks as text files from 20 years ago that I got off the Gutenberg project, an
by willywanker 4y ago
The issue here is with DRM and having to move across storage media. I still have ebooks as text files from 20 years ago that I got off the Gutenberg project, and tons of EPUBs which are guaranteed to be readable since they are just zipped up HTML/XHTML files and not proprietary. For that matter I have Pascal code from high school in the early 90s sitting around on floppy drives and then later hard drives.
- Vrondi 4y agoYep, the Shakespeare text files I downloaded in the 1990s are still perfectly readable on basically any tech device, and have traveled across floppy discs, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, hard drives, SSDs, flash drives, etc. They've been read on laptops, Palm PDA, PlayStation Portable, Windows Mobile Phone, and Android.