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Old 04-24-2009, 01:09 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Student1 View Post
Had similar problems with a few lits... will have more info once my collection is in... will have a bunch of lit to convert!
Indeed, I have converted a few hundred MOBI files now, and a handfull (a dozen or so) required extraction and cleaning of the html to compile into epub successfully.

By contrast I tried about 3 dozen LIT files yesterday and gave up after a couple of hours or so since it seems every other file went 30 minutes or more without any signs of finishing, a few actually crashing the app.

I have better success extracting the lit files with CLIt and importing the resulting HTML directly.

A funny things is that if I extract the lit file, and compile the resulting OPF with Mobi Creator, I can usually then import the resulting MOBI file to Calibre and then convert to EPUB. Much longer process, hence I just extract to html and import directly.

I would say that there is something hinky with the LIT conversion routines. Not surprising really as LIT is a closed standard?, I figure most conversion processess are created by reverse engineering ( am I wrong?).

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