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Originally Posted by Mivo
It's a gradual process, though. A specific format won't just suddenly disappear over night. If one format falls out of favor and a new preferred format emerges, software like Calibre will be there to convert your existing library. LIT is a good example for this.
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Yes, but ebooks are not lossless. Each time you convert one from a format to a different format, the code inside gets crappier and crappier. At some point, this is bound to create problems.
Therefore, I'd prefer to start out with EPUB as a base format, and create all needed formats from that, for as long as this is possible.
Even if I buy a Kindle book, I first convert/extract it to EPUB to obtain the base format file, and then convert it back to AZW3 again because I read on a Kindle. If I get a free book from a BAEN CD in LIT format, it will also first be converted to EPUB, and then to the format I actually need. Just as Calibre puts everything through an HTML conversion, I put everything into EPUB before I do anything else.