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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fantasmamore" data-source="post: 7724773" data-attributes="member: 6763506">No, it's not. People from all over the world convert old books in digital formats just to address that. Digital is eternal. Use a cloud service or the equivalent of "time machine", an app for macs. I have never lost a document the last ten years. I have lost or destroyed physical books in these years however. PDFs are the standard format for printing (WoTC sent a pdf file to the printer in order to produce the physical book). If there is going to be another format in the future it will most probably be a postscript format similar to pdf and even if it's not, you can convert each pdf you own in a variety of formats. As long as there is printing involved, pdf or similar formats are going to be the industry standard. And I still use Windows XP through Parallels in my laptop in order to run old programs. I am not sure that I can do the same with an android app however. I bought an iphone 3G around 2008 and I kept using it untill 2-3 years ago. Over the last few years I couldn't buy anything from the store (nothing was compatible with the ios3 or whatever version I was running) and when (finally) the device died there was no way for me to find the "peppermint" app that I was using to create colour palettes since it was no longer available in the store. Today (albeit in android) there is no app as easy to use and fast and full of useful features as Peppermint once was. Imagine if peppermint was an app for reading books designed only for this app. So, digital is forever, but not every digital file can stand the test of time. Personally I don't care if WotC doesn't publish pdfs, I buy the physical book and the fantasygrounds module and this is more than enough for me. But I do understand why people want pdfs and why they consider it as a superior format. Tomorrow I am going to run Reavers of Harkenwold (4e) through fantasy grounds and imagine from what format I extracted images, maps and text...</blockquote>

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