[CEW4]

Hi everyone,

I'm the new kid on the block, having only gotten my first ever ebook-reader day before yesterday. My primary reason was not to get any new books, but to read those I already have as PDFs, often LIT (from time to time displayed on my Windows Mobile phone using MS Reader - yuck!), and simple TXT. The LIT format especially proved trying (my reader doesn't read LIT natively) - I quickly found tools to "decompile" the file, but I couldn't manage to transfer the results to EPUB or something else that was understandible to my reader.

So finally I stumbled upon Calibre: "Oh boy, another organizer with its own database... And all the conversion work I'll have to do manually, because most of my files are archived, individually, and not even in ZIPs, but RAR to boot..."

Just to make sure (it most certainly wouldn't work, but what can it hurt to try) I selected "Import Books" and pointed it to a folder full of LITs in RARs. Imagine my surprise when Calibre didn't report the expected "sorry, but I've no idea what to do with these files", but instead a welcoming "Import done. Anything else?"

Next, to get the books on my reader. The same feeling of desperation: "Save-to-HDD for every single book, great... Well, let's just try the send-to-reader function first, even though there's no way this will work with my device..."

Immidiatly, on the very first try, same result as before: "Done. What do you want me to do next?"

Still unbelieving, I disconnected my reader and checked its content: All there, including cover images and everything.


It's been a while since I've worked with a software that so efficiently performed its job on the very first try, without forcing me to adjust so much that I ended up doing the job myself. Whoever wrote Calibre or participated in its developement, congratulations. You can indeed be very proud on what you created.


MfG,
CEW4