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*PDF: A widely supported format that can embed metadata, making it useful for organizing documents and ensuring discoverability. PDF/A, a subset of PDF designed for archival purposes, ensures long-term accessibility by embedding fonts and avoiding features like encryption that could hinder future access.

*CBZ/CBR: These are comic book archive formats (which is essentially ZIP or RAR archives) that package images (typically JPEGs and JPEG 2000 or rarely TIFF) into a single file. While useful for organizing sequential images, they are less common in formal archival settings due to limited metadata support. For preservation, the container should support robust metadata standards (e.g., Dublin Core or METS) to ensure that contextual information, such as document provenance, creation date, and scanning parameters, is preserved alongside the images.

*DjVu as a Container: DjVu files can also function as containers, bundling multiple pages or images into a single file, similar to PDF. DjVu’s layered compression makes it efficient for distributing scanned documents, especially for online access, but its preservation use is limited by the same software compatibility issues as its image format. Like CBZ/CBR, it is more suited for access copies than archival masters.

See [[E-reader]] page for ebook file formats such as EPUB, FictionBook/FB2 or MOBI.

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 *PDF: A widely supported format that can embed metadata, making it useful for organizing documents and ensuring discoverability. PDF/A, a subset of PDF designed for archival purposes, ensures long-term accessibility by embedding fonts and avoiding features like encryption that could hinder future access.
 *CBZ/CBR: These are comic book archive formats (which is essentially ZIP or RAR archives) that package images (typically JPEGs and JPEG 2000 or rarely TIFF) into a single file. While useful for organizing sequential images, they are less common in formal archival settings due to limited metadata support. For preservation, the container should support robust metadata standards (e.g., Dublin Core or METS) to ensure that contextual information, such as document provenance, creation date, and scanning parameters, is preserved alongside the images.
+*DjVu as a Container: DjVu files can also function as containers, bundling multiple pages or images into a single file, similar to PDF. DjVu’s layered compression makes it efficient for distributing scanned documents, especially for online access, but its preservation use is limited by the same software compatibility issues as its image format. Like CBZ/CBR, it is more suited for access copies than archival masters.
 See [[E-reader]] page for ebook file formats such as EPUB, FictionBook/FB2 or MOBI.

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