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Originally Posted by mothlight
it appears that they are encrypted files, somehow tied to the device serial number..... The rest are in English
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Were the English texts also in HTXT?
I live in Shanghai, and the Hanvons are everywhere. I bought a 510 last year, that came with over 800 HTXT files. All the books were in Chinese, so I just assumed it was the Chinese equivalent of plaintext (perhaps "Hanyu text").
But now I'm thinking perhaps the H stands for "Hanvon", and it's their own proprietary format. I just today bought a Sibrary G5 (another Chinese company), which also comes with
its own proprietary format. Of all the readers I looked at, only the Hanvons seemed to show support for HTXT, lending credence to the theory that it's a Hanvon proprietary format.
I've tried reading the HTXTs as BigFive, GB and Unicode, and letting Firefox attempt to auto-detect, all with no luck. Nor do they seem to be in any sort of compressed format I can discover (ZIP, RAR, 7z, SIT...).
I've noticed every file starts with the same plaintext string; in my case it's "4008108816827866". However, it doesn't seem to be related to my device's key in the HWDeviceID.log mine's "device=OTIyMDEwOTA4MDAwNDU2Nw%3D%3D�Ru&key=DCF77B 4AD9A44CBC586537747ED27001".
I know zilch about encryption so I don't know where to go from here.
--Nathanael