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ebooks and pdf?



>>>>> "Chris" == Chris O'Connell <omegahalo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes:

    Chris> I do like EPUBs and like the portable nature of the EPUB
    Chris> format.  The EPUB format became standardized in 2007, so it's
    Chris> a relatively young file format.  I'm a bit concerned the file
    Chris> format has the longevity that PDFs have.

I think it's a pretty simple conversion between epub and html, so I'm
assuming it's likely there will be programs that can read it for the
forseeable future.  

If I did get paranoid about that, I could have calibre convert all my
epubs to html.  So far I haven't done that.


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