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Originally Posted by darryl
I don't know the answer, but I would not be confident that all identifying information is removed by any particular conversion. Short of converting to plain text and going through the resulting file line by line with a hex viewer/editor or similar it is difficult to see how you could ever be sure.
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If you use a program like Calibre to open and unpack an epub file, you can basically do just this. It's just an archive like a ZIP or RAR file with a bunch of HTML files with the text, some image files for the pictures, templates for the layout, metadata, and other stuff. I don't know the answer to the original question and I don't know how to go about making sure, but I'm pretty confident that if you pulled out just the HTML files, took a quick look at the code to verify there was no personal data, and then converted them into a new file there wouldn't be any accompanying personal data in the new file.