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Since you are in an academic environment, you are going to find some problems if you try to venture outside of PDF for heavily formatted books. Epubs are based on reflowing text, which means NO fixed page numbers, unless you leave visible page numbers in the text. It also means that text can be hard to pin down along side images and that tables are the work of the devil. This variable page size also means that footnotes can end up some distance from the original text on the page. Many go to notes at the end of a chapter to solve this. Small text like footnote citations can be hard to see on a small device. Inset descriptions by biographies of people mentioned in the texts can cause a major break in the flow of the text in smaller readers.
You may be the first to make this all work and have your future made....or they may cart you away to somewhere for troubled people muttering, but why can't I get that table to work??????
You will need to check the death dates of any author you propose to digitize, 70 years ago being a good average, but check the laws of your country. Copyright can be a gigantic headache.
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