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Originally Posted by Halvah
I'd like to bump one of Lily7's original questions.
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1. Is the current epub format about to go obsolete? I don't understand this epub2 vs epub3 and ACCESS renderer stuff. WAY over my head. I guess I just want some reassurance that I haven't built up a huge collection of epub ebooks only to have their formats go obsolete!</quote>
Will the hundreds and thousands of original epubs many of us have collected become obsolete and unreadable on future generations of ereaders?
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Very probably you will still be able to read your epub collection on an ereader you buy years from now. The new standard is an enhancement of the old standard. Your old ebooks won't be able to take advantage of some of the new features such as embedded audio and video files, language support, etc. but they will look pretty much the same. The ACCESS renderer used by Kobo to handle it's .kepub.epub ebooks is an epub3 renderer yet by renaming your ebook from .epub to .kepub.epub, you can read it with ACCESS instead of the Adobe Reader Mobile. Well, renaming and a few other tweaks.
If nothing else, you will be able to convert your old ebooks to whatever new format is required, much as you can use Calibre today to convert between multiple formats -- I've used Calibre and Sigil to convert quite a few of my old non-DRMed .lit files to epub format (Calibre for the basic conversion, Sigil to clean up the result and set the style to my personal settings.
Regards,
David