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EBook_Ernie · 07-12-2013, 09:16 AM

Hi again

Well, er... First of: I'm virginally new to e-book reading/processing, having always rather preferred the paper ones, so I don't know squat about the entire issue.

I recently embarked on an effort to recreate my onetime (paper)library in e-book version. Bluntly by searching for and ripping every book I remembered, or that I found and fancied. (Hate DRM).

Anyway, most that I found were .PDF but others, predominantly in .lit were most commonly from archives. Now I'm thinking, maybe the archived files were damaged? Or maybe even there was a snag in downloading the respective torrents. Because Calibre does import them, but will not show them properly, or at all.

Not being impaired by any knowledge on the subject, I then thought it must be an incompatibility issue with Calibre, and so I sought to convert from .lit to .epub. using Calibre standard settings. This did not go well at all. Quite aside from DRM, apparently something else was interfering. Of course I did not trust myself to change the settings, because I'm still so ignorant. This is as much detail as I can currently provide, sorry.

Again, using Calibre 2.0.9.39.0 x64 on Windows Vista x64.

Can you please advise?

Thanks again,

E.M. Verheij.

07-12-2013, 09:16 AM	#4
EBook_Ernie Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: calibre 0.9.38 x64	Hi again Well, er... First of: I'm virginally new to e-book reading/processing, having always rather preferred the paper ones, so I don't know squat about the entire issue. I recently embarked on an effort to recreate my onetime (paper)library in e-book version. Bluntly by searching for and ripping every book I remembered, or that I found and fancied. (Hate DRM). Anyway, most that I found were .PDF but others, predominantly in .lit were most commonly from archives. Now I'm thinking, maybe the archived files were damaged? Or maybe even there was a snag in downloading the respective torrents. Because Calibre does import them, but will not show them properly, or at all. Not being impaired by any knowledge on the subject, I then thought it must be an incompatibility issue with Calibre, and so I sought to convert from .lit to .epub. using Calibre standard settings. This did not go well at all. Quite aside from DRM, apparently something else was interfering. Of course I did not trust myself to change the settings, because I'm still so ignorant. This is as much detail as I can currently provide, sorry. Again, using Calibre 2.0.9.39.0 x64 on Windows Vista x64. Can you please advise? Thanks again, E.M. Verheij.