I don't quite get why they have to keep updating formats. Or why there's OCR involved in the first place. Unless they're talking about scanned books specificall

I don't quite get why they have to keep updating formats. Or why there's OCR involved in the first place. Unless they're talking about scanned books specifically. At any rate, I can't imagine a future where there's a trove of digital works from 100 years ago, but gosh darn it we just don't have the programs to interpret them anymore. No, there's going to be the interest in preserving it and they'll find a way. The cost per work will be minimal; they just have to revive each kind of software once, assuming they preserve the binaries or specs. Or just have one emulator for an old system that runs all of it. Or worst case reverse engineer the formats (again, once per format not per work). Is there a single case of digital material from let's say the 60s that we can't interpret anymore? However it makes sense to me that DRM and physical upkeep of the drives are real blockers.