I think the only issue with a txt version would come down to not being able to view the items that aren’t actually regular text (scans of originals and the ability to see stuff that was handwritten or whatever) or images. Of course most of the docs will be just text, but it would be easy to lose information. What is your main issue with them being in PDF?
can’t control-f names we feel WOULD turn up in this doc; which means now about 1200 pages have to be trawled through entirely manually
If there are, I certainly don’t know about 'em-- stuff I could’ve used for my textbook epubs last semester