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RCR · 11-22-2008, 08:13 AM

Please guys, let's not get into a "mine's better than yours" spat.

The question was - what to do with a chm ----- (on a Sony).

My experience:

I've converted two ebooks from chm to rtf.

I used "ABC Amber CHM Converter" to convert the chm to rtf and then corrected the rtf file by hand in MS Word. I ended up with quite presentable ebooks.

The downside was any illustrations were stripped out and there was a LOT of correcting to do.

The program "ABC Amber CHM Converter" has a one month free trial. It does a good job and is well worth buying. It will convert a chm to a large number of different formats, including pdf.

I just tried converting a chm directly to a pdf and it worked well. But of course reading the pdf on the Sony gives mangled tables and poor page breaks.

I don't know why people create ebooks in chm format. Both the books I converted to rtf were better to read in a linear fashion. (Or maybe I just have a linear brain).

11-22-2008, 08:13 AM	#20
RCR Addict Posts: 334 Karma: 992487 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: 2 x Sony 505, iPad, Samsung 7 Tablet, ASUS Transformer, Nexus 7	Please guys, let's not get into a "mine's better than yours" spat. The question was - what to do with a chm ----- (on a Sony). My experience: I've converted two ebooks from chm to rtf. I used "ABC Amber CHM Converter" to convert the chm to rtf and then corrected the rtf file by hand in MS Word. I ended up with quite presentable ebooks. The downside was any illustrations were stripped out and there was a LOT of correcting to do. The program "ABC Amber CHM Converter" has a one month free trial. It does a good job and is well worth buying. It will convert a chm to a large number of different formats, including pdf. I just tried converting a chm directly to a pdf and it worked well. But of course reading the pdf on the Sony gives mangled tables and poor page breaks. I don't know why people create ebooks in chm format. Both the books I converted to rtf were better to read in a linear fashion. (Or maybe I just have a linear brain).