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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7724663" data-attributes="member: 2525">If you can show me how &quot;releasing digital content for an new app usable on literally millions of devices across the world&quot; is the same as &quot;chained to a specific chair with a specific desk lamp&quot;? Because they're nothing alike. One is an extreme exaggeration for effect in typical Internet attention-seeking over the top hysteria, and the other is just a new friggin app you can either buy or not like the thousands of other apps on the market. If you don't like this product, don't buy it. But stop pretending someone is forcing you to buy this and it's the only way for you to access this content. I think this is what, the fifth or sixth means of accessing this content? Nobody is chaining YOU to a desk and lamp. And no, you're not entitled to a PDF just because that's your preference. Some people will like it, others will not, but I think you're not going to get legal PDFs of this content. And while you're free to complain about that for the next decade if you choose, as far as I can tell you can do much of what you want with this product as you could do on a PDF. This product serves 98% of the purposes of a PDF and then some. You're acting like that remaining 2% is what makes PDFs useful, but it's not. This is the same content, usable on many many platforms, to be able to read it and search it and do all sorts of things with it during your game and during game prep. Those are the same primary goals of a PDF.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 7724663, member: 2525"] If you can show me how "releasing digital content for an new app usable on literally millions of devices across the world" is the same as "chained to a specific chair with a specific desk lamp"? Because they're nothing alike. One is an extreme exaggeration for effect in typical Internet attention-seeking over the top hysteria, and the other is just a new friggin app you can either buy or not like the thousands of other apps on the market. If you don't like this product, don't buy it. But stop pretending someone is forcing you to buy this and it's the only way for you to access this content. I think this is what, the fifth or sixth means of accessing this content? Nobody is chaining YOU to a desk and lamp. And no, you're not entitled to a PDF just because that's your preference. Some people will like it, others will not, but I think you're not going to get legal PDFs of this content. And while you're free to complain about that for the next decade if you choose, as far as I can tell you can do much of what you want with this product as you could do on a PDF. This product serves 98% of the purposes of a PDF and then some. You're acting like that remaining 2% is what makes PDFs useful, but it's not. This is the same content, usable on many many platforms, to be able to read it and search it and do all sorts of things with it during your game and during game prep. Those are the same primary goals of a PDF. [/QUOTE]

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