Ruin Explorer
Legend
I think a lot of us are also trusting that, if Amazon do go away, people will be able to find a way to liberate the books in question, or resupply them from an alternate source, because they exist digitally. Some are intentionally DRM-free, too.But yes, I am trusting that Amazon isn't going anywhere.
I certainly moved to ebooks and audiobooks a long time ago and am not interested in going back. I like real books and still read them sometimes when they're given to me, and I carry one in my backpack as a backup most of the time, but I don't find any difference in the level of enthrallment or the like.
I do have one complaint though - a lot of ebooks of 1990s and 1980s books are clearly scanned-in, and the OCR has screwed up at times. Imajica is a beautiful book, but I'm glad I read it as a book before I did as an ebook, because there are like, at least a dozen (probably far more) serious OCR errors - i.e. you wouldn't realize they were errors immediately if you didn't know - I reported every one I saw, but checking back a few years later, none of the ones I remembered had been fixed, even redownloading the book on a different machine. I feel like there should be a more formal process here because this is a real problem.
The Critical Role thing is a bit interesting from the preservation perspective in that some of the fans have actually been complicit (I use the word with no judgement, I just can't see another way to put it) in getting rid of stuff, like intentionally deleting fan-made transcripts of episodes which have been taken offline, which is sort of inconceivable to me. I think it's probably specific to that fandom though, it's not something I've heard of more generally.