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Originally Posted by HarryT
Plain text files have no formatting. You'd lose a great deal of information by storing a plain text file. That really wouldn't be a terribly good idea.
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Right.
Which is why .txt isn't at the very top of Calibre's preferred conversion input format list.
If you take what Kovid said purely literally, clearly ALL other ebook formats are indeed a superset of text....
Our goal is protect our "books" as whole, not merely the knowledge in them.
We are guarding against technical obsolescence, not really just ensuring that cave men will be able to rebuild civilization after the collapse.
And truthfully, maybe if civilization did collapes like that, the cave men would be better off re-learning everything again for themselves, like they did the first time around.
Apparently anything we'd have to teach them will have led to the collapse of civilization. Better they start fresh and try again.