Thread: Future proofing: Books vs. eBooks
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Old 04-13-2013, 08:08 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
The plain text versions are.
EPUB is text, inside the zip file.

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Some of the others might not be.
I've got pBooks that are 150+ years old.
How many current file formats do you think will still be readable 150 years from now?
Any that are transferred to new hard drive/flash drives/whatever comes next as people replace their computers.

I mean, seriously, how hard is to Goolge for a Kindle Reader? It's hard to make stuff go away when you want it to on the internet.
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