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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
But it's not only books we're talking about. Look towards the bigger picture.
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But we ARE talking about the books
I've gathered the feeling your problems with migration to newer or different systems etc. were with non-text or book data. And that's a completely different story - you shouldn't generalize.
On top of that, of course you'll have problems if you *start out* with a proprietary, closed format no one can read or write... That's the equivalent of piling books in navajo on your shelves.
Furthermore, of course you'll have problems and additional costs if you have other people or companies do your conversion and archival.
Furtherfurthermore (furthermoremore?), if your hard drive breaks down, it's the equivalent of having your books or notes get splashed by coffee, get burned down or have them disintegrate from a sudden paper mite infestation.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Actually, I'm in favor of taking a step forward and declaring HTML a standardized format because it also includes formating cues, but it is still in ASCII. However, all of the code we work with today starts with Unicode. I'd consider it a standard, for sure. As long as data as stored starts in Unicode, programs can get the content back out.
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How about TeX? ;P