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Originally Posted by Dave_S
There also is not much of any reason to bloat the code of a reader to display an obsolete format, when there are plenty of format converters available to make the conversion before reading. That is probably especially true of the LIT format, as the few non Windows based readers that read the LIT format ( ie. Hanlin V series) seem to do LIT much more poorly than other formats.
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I may have misread the Calibre manual wrong, but I understood the preferred base book format they recommend for the Calibre library is .LIT because it can be converted to other formats, is compressed and contains multiple files for covers, metadata etc. so maybe it's not inherently a bad book format to support?
I also don't buy this bloat argument.
Adding a few 10s of Ks of format reading code to an existing application surely beats the bloat of having to install multiple multi-megabyte book readers to get all formats covered and has the added benefit that you don't have to learn to like/use a whole bunch of different user interfaces.
And the very fact that many people choose to install multiple readers so as to get .pdb or mobi support or PDF support or lit support etc suggests that there is not an appetite amongst many book reader software users, in general, to spend large amounts of time converting their legacy library.
You may be prepared to spend the time converting but I'd suggest there is a large population of winmobile phone and PDA users abandoning winmobile to move to Android who will have lit file collections that they just want to be able to continue reading.
And remember I also asked for .PDB/.PRC support because that file format predates winmobile and comes from the Palm kit that I had before winmobile.....