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Originally Posted by HarryT
The only format conversion that tends to introduce textual errors is converting from PDF to something else, because a PDF file doesn't contain "text" at all, and the conversion tool has to "reconstruct" the page from what are basically graphical components.
Conversion between "text" formats - ePub, Lit, Mobi, etc - should be "lossless" as far as the actual text is concerned. You may, however, lose formatting in the process.
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I'm not sure that's strictly true. It depends on how the PDF file was generated. Otherwise, a standard PDF reader wouldn't be able to let you select and copy its text, or search through the text in its files. Or am I missing something here?