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<blockquote data-quote="Iosue" data-source="post: 6367790" data-attributes="member: 6680772">While I personally think that the DungeonScape model is perfectly cromulent, it strikes me that the issue is primarily one of uncertainty.&nbsp; The devil you know versus the devil you don't.&nbsp; It's conceivable that the DungeonScape model will be without problems and viable 10, 20, 30 years down the line.&nbsp; But there's no guarantee.&nbsp; No one knows how it will work out or what circumstances may change in the years to come.&nbsp; PDF is a known quantity.&nbsp; They are viewable across platforms and with many different readers, including Open Source ones.&nbsp; The circumstances that have to come about to render one's PDF unreadable are far more unlikely than the ones that may render DungeonScape e-books unusable.I mean, just as an example, your last point.&nbsp; It may be possible, one could even go so far to call it likely, but it's already a solved issue for PDF.&nbsp; PC, Mac, Linux, iPad, Android -- there is no mainstream platform that doesn't read PDFs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iosue, post: 6367790, member: 6680772"] While I personally think that the DungeonScape model is perfectly cromulent, it strikes me that the issue is primarily one of uncertainty. The devil you know versus the devil you don't. It's conceivable that the DungeonScape model will be without problems and viable 10, 20, 30 years down the line. But there's no guarantee. No one knows how it will work out or what circumstances may change in the years to come. PDF is a known quantity. They are viewable across platforms and with many different readers, including Open Source ones. The circumstances that have to come about to render one's PDF unreadable are far more unlikely than the ones that may render DungeonScape e-books unusable. I mean, just as an example, your last point. It may be possible, one could even go so far to call it likely, but it's [I]already[/I] a solved issue for PDF. PC, Mac, Linux, iPad, Android -- there is no mainstream platform that [I]doesn't[/I] read PDFs. [/QUOTE]

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