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Old 09-01-2011, 07:18 AM   #9
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Text files are a very poor choice for your original books; they have no formatting.
Markdown or Textile. Formatting for TXT. Both do a really good job for reading in the TXT file and for converting to other formats.

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Do you buy books and then convert them to plain text?
I do.

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I'm a little puzzled - I don't know of anyone who publishes books as text files! Or are you talking about public domain stuff from PG? Even they, though, do HTML, which is much better.
I only use EPUB when the book contains pictures. If it's just text I prefer TXT.
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