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Something i have been foing for years in calibre is saving the de-drm version of all ebooks that i bought. And getting the txt version of the files.
The ebook format is basically a subset of html if you ever look into it. And as time goes on ebook readers have different ways to show these books. Most of the time, its great! Sometimes its not. Give it another 50 years and we will see what works and what doesnt. But i garentee at least the txt files will still work.
I didnt know what authors and publishers go though. Thanks for that lemmydividebyzero
Conversion from epub to txt is a highly lossy process, there's a lot of formatting that gets thrown away.
Regardless of how individual ebook readers may display epubs a little differently, epub is an open format so I would recommend keeping it in that form at least for archival purposes.
Calibre let's you save multiple versions of files. As long as they don't go out of their way to delete the epub version, you can have as many formats of the same book as you want, grouped under the same item.
Yep. Thats what i do.