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Old 12-26-2007, 02:31 PM   #17
Liviu_5
Books and more books
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
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Your best bet is to convert the book to XHTML and metadata to OPF. Package it all up in a zip file and your good to convert to any format in the future.
In principle yes, but in practice it depends on your time, number of books, tech expertise and so on. It's a big difference when you have 10 e-books in various formats, vs thousands upon thousands...

Also it depends on the value of the e-book for you, how likely you are to reread it, where...

This is why despite not being optimal, html and rtf are useful, since there are tons of free batch converters, where you give a command after minimal preparation and the computer does the work.
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