Thread: Future proofing - which format?
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Old 12-16-2014, 11:00 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by murg View Post
ePub.

ePub uses standard HTML and CSS with plain text in a standard zip file.

So, even if ePub isn't around in 20 years, you can still get to the text and reformat it into a format that is current then.
This is only true if you know how to strip the markup (formatting) from the text. Try this...open up an epub in a straight text editor and give it to your grandmother to read. Will she be able to?

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