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That really depends on the formats involved. Many ebook formats are basically some subset of (X)HTML in some sort of wrapper. However, the various subsets are not all the same, for example, ePub supports formatting that MOBI doesn't support. So it really depends what your source and destination formats are, but generally, I'd assume that formatting will get lost. That said, Calibre tries hard to preserve what formatting there is.