Maximilian Wilson wrote: >> I just noticed the other day, a grandchild picked up a Mercer Mayer book >> for me to read. I had a companion computer version of that book that >> has not been able to run on the last 3-4 computers I have bought. The >> book still works just fine, thank-you. > >As do plain-text computer formats. You don't "run" them, you read >them. That's why it's nice that Baen offers them in so many formats, >including HTML and RTF (easily convertible to PDF). I'm not exactly >advocating e-books (different strokes, etc.) but the good ones don't >have anything in common with what you're describing. > > Of course, the reason those books were in a program was because that medium offered stuff that the print medium did not do better. (click on Grandma and she does something cute).