Carcosa wrote:Perhaps a more important choice is format - Calibre should always be able to switch formats, but each time you degrade the quality. Even looking back a few years on here and you'll find formats people tend not to release these days, like .lit, and you can see how quickly things can change. Even though recent developments suggest everyone is resigned to the fact that the Nook will never be a true competitor to the Kindle, the .ePub format it uses looks to be here to stay and is a very useful "base" format for converting into others.
While the Nook might be suffering the newer ebooks for modern Kindles (AZW/AZW3/KF8) is basically a zipped file containing a .ePub for the newer ereaders and a .mobi for the older ones. So Amazon has also seen the power of the .epub and is moving over to using it, even if it isn't obvious from the outside. Calibre will convert to AZW3, which will preserve most of the formatting (I'm still experimenting to see what the differences are between that and using Kindle Preview for the conversion). All of which means if you focus on collecting the retail .ePubs (and AZW or AZW3 where available) you should have a pretty future-proofed set of ebooks no matter which ereader you buy over the years. At least until Amazon come up with a way to make their ebooks 3D to work with their new device and then they develop a way to make them holograms that the Kindle Fire 23 will beam directly down your optic nerve into your brain. Even then, I bet Calibre will figure out a way to convert an .ePub into that format
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Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is Lost Carcosa.
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies,
But stranger still is Lost Carcosa.