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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I did not list text as it's not an eBook format. Technically PDF isn't as well, but since some think so, I listed it.
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I'm sorry Mr Wolf but that's just silly! Plain text is not only an ebook format, for decades it was the ONLY ebook format. That's just a little bit like saying a Model T is not a car just because you don't see them on the street today.
Michael Hart invented ebooks in 1971. The first Palm Pilot was sold in 1996. During those years text was used for the vast majority of ebooks. I don't recall what year I started reading ebooks but it was in the early 1990s, well before the Palm came out and at that time I didn't know there were any ebooks in anything other than plain text.
There is one and only one true ebook format: plain text. All the rest are latecomers to the game and may in time prove themselves.
Just as there is one and only one JSWolf.
Barry