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Originally Posted by taustin
As for .LIT being dead, perhaps nobody is publishing new stuff in it today, but Calibre will still import it, and convert to and from it. Calibre is not an obscure, unknown program with no active support.
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Yet. Surely I'm not the only person here who remembers what a hassle the Y2K problem was, or who had to stop using software because it didn't get fixed? Every dead, antiquated program that exists was once cutting-edge...
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Originally Posted by taustin
You don't need a reader to handles dead formats, you only need a converter to a current format.
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Correction:
WE can get by with converters. Joe Averageguy, though? Grampa Oltimer? They need readers.
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Originally Posted by taustin
And covnerters are not at all hard to make (though making one work well can be a challenge, but you only need it solved once).
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Have you
seen the horrible stuff that gets passed off as valid code? Oh, it validates, but it's also sloppy and bloated as hell - and one of the books I bought this weekend is guilty of it. Smart writer, probably a good book, but here's a random sample of the code (which is exactly as I downloaded it, but with text removed to protect the author):
Code:
<body class="calibre">
<p class="calibre1"><span class="calibre6"><span class="calibre3">Chapter 5</span></span></p>
<p class="calibre1"><span class="calibre7"><span class="italic"><span class="calibre3">Chapter Title</span></span></span></p>
<p class="calibre8"><span class="calibre3">First paragraph.</span></p>
Here's how that
could look,
just cleaning up the HTML and not touching any CSS:
Code:
<body class="calibre calibre3">
<p class="calibre1 calibre6">Chapter 5</p>
<p class="calibre1 calibre7 italic">Chapter Title</p>
<p class="calibre8">First paragraph.</p>
Let me emphasize that I didn't pass the book through a converter; my copy of Calibre never touched it...