Access to Compendium in Book Form

It would be really nice if the books purchased through Roll20 were readable as a book (pdf type format?). As a DM (5e) one of my favorite ways to get new ideas is flipping through the DMG or monster manual and finding new monsters and rules/ideas to implement into my game. However, the way the compendium is set up, it is nearly impossible to do this since you need to search key words.  The work around is to buy the physical books in addition to buying them on roll20 (the monster stat-blocks in particular are super useful) however this is a very expensive option, and personally I don't want to have to pay twice for the same content. My suggestion is to have purchased books accessible in book format through roll20 (either in game or out of game).

What Roll20 can offer is entirely dependent upon their licensing agreement with the owner of the IP.

This is one of the reasons I buy all my books on DnD beyond now.  Far to hard to read it on roll20 as a book.  Some of it in compendiums that you have to log into the game to read, some external to the game, links that take you to the market place of something unrelated - its a mess.

B Simon Smith said: What Roll20 can offer is entirely dependent upon their licensing agreement with the owner of the IP. Yeah I agree, this is my biggest concern, WotC often has pretty strict licensing agreements so I'm not sure about the possibility of this, but I thought it was worth putting out there just in case it's possible. Worst that happens is the thread is marked as 'obstructed'.