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Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe - André Klein Dot Net
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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.