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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Text is not an eBook format. It's a document format. PDF is supported, but it's not at eBook format. Same with text.
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I totally disagree.
Text is not in any way a "document" format because it doesn't not include a "page" specification. It is merely a stream of relowable text with the only "formatting" being carriage returns.
The original "ebook" format, as "invented" by Michael Hart on July 4, 1971, was plain ASCII text with forced line wraps (carriage returns) every 79 characters to format the display on the then standard 80 column pure text CRT displays, along with double CRs for paragraph breaks. I remember creating a WordPerfect macro, back in my early days with ebooks (very early 1990s), to process these files to remove the line breaks and paragraph breaks and to indents, with spaces, the first line of each paragraph. This gave me TXT files that reflowed better on narrower screens and served as a basis for format conversions (to RTF and later MSWordCE DOC, PalmDOC, early Mobi PRC, ...).