PRS-500 lit2lrf.exe

[waykohler]

Made a command line tool that converts Microsoft reader .lit files to the sony reader .lrf.

I reformat the html inside the .LIT to a layout I like .

Try it out .
It can convert whole directory structures or individual files.

lit2lrf is written in C++ and works as follows.
I use convertlit to extract the html from the lit.
I convert the html to .LRS using my own code.
I compile the LRS to .LRF using lrsparser. LrsParser is faster than lrs2lrf.

It's all done in unicode so non english books should work. But since I dont have anything to test with who knows.

I do not use the DLLs from the Toolbar for LIBRIe. They crash on large html files.

EDIT:
0.2: Hm, that first version was QUITE buggy.

0.3: msvcrt dependencies. I created a new version that is linked with a static libc.

0.4: Vista compability. Also made the tool less verbose.

0.5: Oops, Windows XP compability.

0.6: Support <BR> tag and other minor formating enhancements.

http://www.waykohler.com/lit2lrf/lit2lrf-0.6.zip

[jbresee]

This is a great idea - tried it out, but it errors out 'cant find clit.exe'.

Any idea how to sort this out?
Thanks,
Jim

[waykohler]

Originally Posted by jbresee

This is a great idea - tried it out, but it errors out 'cant find clit.exe'.

Any idea how to sort this out?
Thanks,
Jim

Im not sure... Try typing the full path to the lit2lrf.

For example: c:\path\lit2lrf ebook.lit

All the 3 executables in the zip needs to be in the same folder.

/Johan

[jbresee]

I tried calling out the full path as suggested:

c:\lit2lrf\lit2lrf niven-wrong-way-street.lrf
'/clit.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I'm running Vista... perhaps that's boogering things up a bit?

Thanks,
Jim

[Alexander Turcic]

It works very well for me. Thank you Johan!

[waykohler]

Originally Posted by jbresee

I tried calling out the full path as suggested:

c:\lit2lrf\lit2lrf niven-wrong-way-street.lrf
'/clit.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I'm running Vista... perhaps that's boogering things up a bit?

Thanks,
Jim

c:\lit2lrf\lit2lrf niven-wrong-way-street.lrf
That should be .lit not .lrf

I'll try it under vista tonight.

/Johan

[waykohler]

Originally Posted by waykohler

c:\lit2lrf\lit2lrf niven-wrong-way-street.lrf
That should be .lit not .lrf

I'll try it under vista tonight.

/Johan

Jupp, it was vista.
Posted a new version.

/Johan

[waykohler]

Now that there is a fair amount of people that downloaded this tool.

How's the generated lrf's?
Have you found LIT's that generates bogus LRF's?
Does it work at all?

[jbresee]

Thanks so much Johan!!!

Now I can continue to purchase sci-fi books from fictionwise and use them on my reader!

Thanks sooo much,
Jim

[waykohler]

Originally Posted by jbresee

Thanks so much Johan!!!

Now I can continue to purchase sci-fi books from fictionwise and use them on my reader!

Thanks sooo much,
Jim

A bit of a warning Jim. My tool only handles non DRM .LIT files.
If fictionwise protects their files it will not convert.

There is ways to unprotect your files.
This program can be used to do that: http://www.convertlit.com/index.php
The legality of doing the unprotection is described under legal on the site.

/Johan

[jbresee]

Originally Posted by waykohler

A bit of a warning Jim. My tool only handles non DRM .LIT files.
If fictionwise protects their files it will not convert.

There is ways to unprotect your files.
This program can be used to do that: http://www.convertlit.com/index.php
The legality of doing the unprotection is described under legal on the site.

/Johan

Thanks for the heads up... DRM makes me crazy. I'm not sharing my unprotected ebooks - just mvoing them to my reader.
The industry seems determined to kill this market before it even gets started!
Thanks again for your work on lit2lrf.
Jim

[Doof]

This is an awesome piece of work!

Any chance it will support images and TOC in the future?

[waykohler]

Originally Posted by Doof

This is an awesome piece of work!

Any chance it will support images and TOC in the future?

Thank you Doof.

TOC:
Yes this is planed.

Images:
The title page will be supported.
Im not so sure about images in the book itself. Hard to do and not in the scope of this tool, use a html converter instead.

[Vaporware]

I have used your tool in a long process of converting an HTML page to LRF. I went from HTML->RTF where I stripped some of the formatting->LIT->Lit2LRF->LRF.

Is there a way to handle this document's formatting better? I have looked in each step and lit2LRF makes the largest changes. Obviously the links in the TOC can be stripped out but the appear to have been combined into one large paragraph.

I have included all files generated. Don't worry, they're gutenburg.

[waykohler]

Originally Posted by Vaporware

I have used your tool in a long process of converting an HTML page to LRF. I went from HTML->RTF where I stripped some of the formatting->LIT->Lit2LRF->LRF.

Is there a way to handle this document's formatting better? I have looked in each step and lit2LRF makes the largest changes. Obviously the links in the TOC can be stripped out but the appear to have been combined into one large paragraph.

I have included all files generated. Don't worry, they're gutenburg.

There is lots to be done in lit2lrf. The formating is far from perfect, the only thing it does is change the font size and bold/italic. There is no center or anything like that.

One thing you can do to organize it better is to insert page breaks. It does honor those.

But, there is lots to improve in lit2lrf I just need to find some time.

I did some small changes to support the <BR> tag. And uploaded a new version.

/Johan