14 years support window is so insanely good. But as it goes...

You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.

azalemeth 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My local library has some dead tree format books with a 500 year support window. Or dead animal or dead reed format books with more like a 2000-year support window.

Planned obsolescence is always bad.

	▲	jhbadger 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Unless they are very popular books, they will be weeded (thrown out or or sold) in a matter of a few years though. People imagine that libraries are infinite storehouses of material, but except for places like the Library of Congress they really aren't. There is limited storage space, and in order to get new books they need to discard the old ones that were rarely checked out. Even the example of old books on parchment aren't immune to this trend -- the books we have from Ancient Greece or Rome are just the really popular ones that were copied over and over again, and the vast majority of works from those times are lost.

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mlyle 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think the bigger issue is that there's market segments that old product reached and that newer ones don't... and you are locked into their devices by the content you've "bought."

14 year support window is pretty good. Not being able to get a modern device with buttons, and having no way to read your books with buttons, isn't.

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ok123456 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A bookshelf can have books that are 100s of years old.

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generic92034 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe for ebook readers, but not for books.