Books and comics [i]are[/i] easy to access... Welcome to the digital age where you can literally purchase, download, and torrent at the touch of a button. Accessibility is not an issue at all, it's laziness. The complaint that people raise is that they have to read a book or flip through a 20 page issue of a comic book for story and lore info because they seem to think that an 8-10 hour campaign can capture the depth and nuance of a universe with over 100 billion years of history. If you're a story and lore fan, you will have no qualm with reading extra material which supplies a beautiful amount of substance to the story. Don't want to read? Get the audiobook. Don't want to listen to the audiobook? Spend 5-10 minutes on Halopedia reading a summary of what you've purposefully missed out on.