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Originally Posted by Nate the great
If they really come out with a device that reads LIT, that would be interesting. I wonder if Dymocks will ship it to the US? If not, I might need someone in AU to buy one for me and ship it.
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Technically, I don't see any reason that someone couldn't incorporate LIT support into an existing reader. The compression used is LZX. You would also have to handle the DRM. Both of these are handled by ConvertLIT, so I don't see why a reader program couldn't do it on the fly. And there is no reason any of this couldn't be done on a non-Windows platform.
The only real potential problem is legal. Would MS sue you into oblivion if you added LIT capablilty to your software?
Actually, I don't understand why MS themselves haven't ported Reader to other non-Windows platforms. The software is actually quite nice for reading. It is a shame that it is not more widely available. And if I were really dreaming, it would be even better if MS Reader could read other ebook formats as well as LIT.