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Originally Posted by Westlyn
I have, and have used, both of these tools but ABC leaves a lot to be desired in terms of the resulting formatting and CLIT18 creates a html file that I have to further process to create my preferred epubs.
If I need to fix/reformat a lit then these are the tools I use to get an editable format and epub.
But I have a bunch of files (from Baen for eg) that are just great as they are. I know in many cases I could download the same book in a different format but this doesn't seem like a good use of time/bandwidth when I already have the book......
Calibre does a fairly good job of conversion but requires that I import my collection and then convert.
Your comment about being the last person with LIT files seems a bit confrontational to me.
Why not make the same comment about the people who have posted about wanting .pdb or .prc readers or for .imp or .rb files - they too can just convert everything they have. Simple answer is most people would prefer to get a reader that can open everything. CR3 already supports a wide range of input formats - for me personally .lit and .pdb/.prc import would give me one reading tool that can open all my collection.
I have, for historical reasons ie I used a windows mobile smartphone, a large collection of lit files, I would much prefer to find a reader that can read them without conversion than spend my time converting, reformatting etc. The same goes for my smaller collection of .pdb files. At the end of the day I want to spend time reading not playing with converter tools. Don't get me wrong for some specific files I have made the effort to convert but I don't want to convert hundreds of books I already have.
Will I buy/acquire .lits in future? NO. But do I want to convert the large collection I have? Also no.
At the end of the day, I asked for a feature - if Buggins can deliver then great, if not then that's fine too. But please don't post in way that came across as insulting me because I have Lit files.
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Hi:
You are not alone, I have two dictionaries in lit format. Microsoft reader and mobipocket reader search a definition eficiently. Also I'd like to comment that Microsoft reader for ppc it's awfull except for the anntotarion feature, included many years ago, one point for this.
Some lit are hard to convert to epub or other formats, a formatting issue (color fonts, symbols,...) and my fault, probably. I have tried all the tools mentioned above.
Pdb'ers and prc'ers are not alone too, I still download wikipedia articles (1 level of recursion) with sunrisexp and read them with vademecum.
Edited to include some non off-topic comments :-). I don't think the inclusion of lit format in the compatible coolreader features is a priority, in my opinion. The same for pdb or prc. I'll miss a lot those features but I understand that making freely available the coding work of the author is enough.
Peace and regards.