M\y grandparents, who recently passed, had a book about STDs printed
~200 years ago, and one of their children or grandchildren will
probably inherit it. I hope to inherit a book owned by my great grandfather.
PDF exists for under 20 years, I would plan on it being around for
another 100+ years. I would plan for those High Density Disks to
crash before the end of the decade.
At 10:02 AM 11/4/2011, you wrote:
>The latest developments in e-books are working to address many of
>those issues and it is pretty standard now for e-books to come out
>in a variety of formats that will be readable well into the future.
>PDFs and EPUB files are pretty standard formats that are readable on
>most platforms. Electronic libraries would be stored on High Density
>Disks and would be a cheap ...
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