[Westlyn]

Originally Posted by Dave_S

Can you point out even one case of successful LIT support outside the Windows camp? All I have ever seen is complaints about the LIT support provided by the Hanlin line of readers.

There are converters for Palm formats too. I started there myself, and have converted ALL of my old Palm format books to both FB2 and EPUB to future proof them.

We're obviously not understanding each other. I'm not a MS zealot re the superiority of LIT or any other format on any particular hardware/OS.

I simply don't want to convert my existing book library from whatever file formats it's currently in.

In my case as an ex windows mobile user, my collection has a high proportion of LITs but I've a whole bunch of epubs too.

I know how to convert and I have the tools to do it for pretty any format of book I've acquired.

What I've tried to communicate is I'd prefer not to convert.

There is too much time involved in me having to do this for my collection and I think there are plenty of other people like me that don't want to convert everything they own to the latest 'future proof format' - that format will change too.

I know I can convert the files, but as I've explained previously: in my experience the result is often not an exact copy in layout etc which can be highly unsatisfactory and time consuming to fix especially since I'm not an expert in CSS.

I just want to use a reader that can work 'OK', not even perfectly, with most of the most common formats 'out there' - in my experience LIT is very common amongst former Windows Mobile users.

I don't care how good LIT support was on a Hanlin or indeed how good it was on windows mobile hardware. So I see no need to point you to successful support outside of windows - it's not relevant to my request.

I do know the internal core of LIT is basically an HTML content file so any hardware that can't handle LIT well obviously couldn't handle HTML properly either.

I had a Windows mobile phone and PDA both of which can read .LIT files.

Many other people also have previously had these devices and like me have downloaded for example Baen ebooks in LIT format, Fictionwise or Project Gutenburg books in LIT format. There are a lot of people like me, otherwise why would Baen offer LIT even today as a downloadable format.

So if the developer of an application like CR3 is willing to add support for the formats I'm interested in that's my best outcome.

If he says no then that's fine - I will continue to use CR3 until something better comes along - and one of my selection criteria for 'better' will be if the new app supports one or more of the additional book formats I'm interested in.

Let's not turn this into a Windows vs. XXXX type debate. And please understand my starting point is that I'm simply not going to convert all my 'legacy' book formats to EPUB.