@paregorios No great stakes on that decision. Happy to have generated a bit of conversation. And a bit of looking around... In the #hcommons faq, ePub not listed among supported formats for text: https://hcommons.org/core/faq/ . PDF "preferred", though with warning. But... I only saw this now. Again, happy for the prompt.
On the bigger Academia_edu question: I'm a little agnostic when it comes to repositories that enable access to work originally published elsewhere. Use them in parallel?