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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8969331" data-attributes="member: 29398">Not meaningless at all.If I pay to buy something, to me that means I own it and can - absent laws etc. to the contrary - make use of it at any time and in any manner I please.  I own my car, which means I can - within the law - drive it whenever and wherever I want.  I own my 5e DMG, which means I can pick it up and read it or write in it or whatever at any time I choose.Contrast this with paying to merely access something in a manner and-or at a schedule of someone else's (usually the owner's) choosing.  If I have to go to, say, a specific website to access the material because that's where it is stored, that to me is similar to having to go to a specific library in order to access a particular book.  It's renting, at best.PDFs are in the middle somewhere.  Yes I might technically own the material and have it stored in my computer, but I still don't truly "own" it in that there are still major obstacles to my at-will use of it: I can't access it unless I'm sitting at my computer, I can't access it if there's no power, and I can't use it like I can a book until-unless I pay again* to print it out.* - either through the cost of printer ink and paper or the cost of getting someone (e.g. Staples) to print it for me, if they even would.</blockquote>