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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
No it isn't.
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Conversion and format shifting are synonyms. More extreme examples are to consume on a phone, or previously a personal media player with an HDD.
LP -> mp3
CD -> mp3. Both are digital but the code is completely different
CD, LP or MP3 to Sony Minidisc.
LP, CD, minidisc, reel tapes, MP3 to compact cassette.
VHS -> mp4
DVD -> mp4 (also involves DRM removal)
paper or scanned PDF -> real ebook (few PMP supported ebooks, at best HTML, text or Action Script with the text in it).
There can be hardly any difference in the CSS, NCX and HTML between an epub2 and a KF8/azw3 made from it.
The preservation or not of code is irrelevant on Conversion/Format shifting. The entire purpose has always been (since the 1950s with tape, radio and discs) simply to consume the content on a different device to what the media was originally sold on.