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Old 03-15-2012, 03:23 PM   #52
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
If we define eBook formats to be those that JSWolf likes, sure.
People were reading TXT eBooks a long time before ePub et al even existed.
It was the default format for Gutenberg books, and unless this has changed in the last few years, they still require an 80 column wrapped TXT version to be submitted.
Plain text is not what Gutenberg serves. They serve text with markup. There is a big difference.

If it was just what I liked, then we'd not have Mobipocket, KF8, PDF, PDB.

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