In the modern era, physical copies of 2nd Edition books are becoming increasingly fragile. The glue in the spines of 1990s softcovers has a tendency to dry out and crack, leading to pages falling out—a condition collectors ironically refer to as "Games Workshop spine rot." Consequently, a digital PDF version is often the safest way to experience the content without damaging a rare physical copy.

Varus tapped the query. The cogitator, a brute-force relic from M.38, hummed to life. Its screen flickered through a cascade of noospheric wraith-data, past the slick, illuminated propaganda of the 10th Edition primers, past the grimdark fidelity of the 9th, and deep into the raw, uncut archeotech of the early years.