Hot off the digital presses, Kovid has just released calibre version 0.4.117, which integrates my LIT-generation support. For now, LIT-generation is available only on the command-line. For your command-lining pleasure, calibre provides two new tools: 'any2lit', which works basically like 'any2epub' and will convert just about anything to a LIT e-book; and 'oeb2lit', which more-or-less directly encapsulates OEBPS 1.x or 2.0 content into an OEBPS 1.x LIT e-book.
The tools have most of the features you would expect, and have the following shortcomings you might not:
- We still don't know the LIT anchor-hashing algorithm. Some links in books with more than six anchors per "page" (if using any2lit) or per HTML file (if using oeb2lit) will not work.
- CSS and markup is not yet transformed to the subset MSReader understands. The subset MSReader supports is somewhat idiosyncratic, and a future release will transform content written to deform gracefully into content which deforms gracefully.
Let us know of any improvements you'd like to see, and happy converting!
(P.S. to a moderator -- perhaps this should be made sticky?)