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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4151536" data-attributes="member: 2067">Word.This is why I think some of the paranoia around protecting books from online piracy is a bit overwrought. The formats are pretty incompatible -- it's a pain to read a book on a computer screen. Heck, even ebooks have difficulty crossing that barrier. The physical substance of a book is just too tenacious. I'd definately download them and read them. The purchase would probably be based on whether or not I would plan on actually using the books to play the game. If yeah, then yeah, nothin' beats the book in hand at the table. If no, then no. If all it would do is sit on my shelf anyway, I've got better uses for shelf space. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />This is something that books have over movies, music, art, photography...other things that routinely get pirated online. A book's physical substance is part of it's appeal in the way that a physical CD or a DVD isn't (though I'm sure some vinyl die-hards would argue that there's something inherent in that kind of format that can't be replicated). Heck, with books, you even have things like the Creative Commons liscences. Giving your stuff away online for free often results in MORE sales of the end product, because you reach a bigger audience.That might not work for D&D specifically, but whatever. The point is that some pdf file is no substitute for the physical book (but an mp3 file might be considered in most minds a viable substitute for a cd single).</blockquote>

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