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Originally Posted by disconnected
I wished that more books, both current and backlist, were available as ebooks, and I wished that I didn’t need so many different apps and DRM systems to keep track of, but it was a small inconvenience. I was building up a sizable library. Ebooks didn’t take up any physical space, so moving to a new city didn’t require giving away half of them. I could keep my whole library forever…...
Well, that was a rude awakening. I don’t know how I could have been quite so short-sighted. I couldn’t imagine going back to print books. I thought about just cutting my losses, giving up on my thousand or so books and starting over, this time with a large company that would stay in business (although it didn’t help me that Microsoft was still in business). Maybe Borders would be a good choice; I liked their stores.
Thank goodness for Calibre and Alf. And the Mobileread forum. I was able to rescue almost every one of my books.
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We had the "CLit" ("Convert LIT") program years before Alf, of course. It would expand a LIT book to OEBPS source, from where it could be rebuilt in Mobi format with MobiPocket Creator.