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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.
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Not that I particularly care that coolreader doesn't do LITs (mobi-support, however...), but I hear Stanza for MacOS supports LITs just fine.
http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/which-fi...upport-reading
Golden Crater software's Tiny Reader also supports LITs successfully on WinMo Smartphones that don't run MS Reader itself.
Both LIT and ePub are based on oeb and have very similar structures which is why Calibre converts them to epub as fast as anything. The main difference is in the external compression and the metadata file. If you explode a LIT with the CLIT tool, you can open the resulting oeb file with any app supporting oeb; that's an old two-step path to cleanly converting LITs to Mobi.
Also, as an owner of a Hanlin V3-base BeBook 1, I can tell you the LIT support failures are because the Hanlin parser doesn't know how to deal with multi-part LITs, which is a standard feature of epubs, too. It seems they only tested it with LITs created from inside MS Word (which are single file), not from ReaderWorks--which is what most commercial LITs are made with--or Calibre.
There is no legal or technical reason why LIT support can't be readily piggybacked off epub support other than the fact that there is no developer interest in it. Ditto for mobi support. I wouldn't mind seeing it but if the devs can't be bothered...
(shrug)
Hopefully there will be more interest in OPDS support...