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Old 12-24-2008, 07:31 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by llasram View Post
Unfortunately, the HTML ConvertLIT produces is the HTML contained in the LIT file, modulo a few bugs (which you can avoid by using calibre's 'lit2oeb' instead). There are several ways to turn HTML into plain text. Firefox's "Save Page As..." does a pretty good job. I find the '-dump' feature of the text-only browesr 'lynx' gives me the best overall plain-text output, but it can be a bit fiddly to get the character encoding right.
I tried Calibre's lit2oeb and still had terrible formatting. So I used Firefox to save as a txt file and just started from scratch and eventually created a nicely formatted ebook. Thanks for the tips.
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