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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Derek, when you do get around to doing that, would you please be kind enough to post what format the books you extracted were in when you extracted them? I have a theory going here...
Thanks,
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Okay,
I installed and ran iPhone Backup Extractor. It's super easy to use! I found that all THREE ebooks purchased were given the .prc file extension. And, when I checked two of them, I found they were in typical .mobi/.prc format and did NOT need decryption. However, the third one was MUCH larger - 3.7MB and it did not come with any image files, just a rather short text novel - and upon checking it out with Hextreme, I found a TOPAZ file (first four bytes were 'T', 'P', 'Z' and zero(hex value 30). As I don't know of any way to extract a .tpz file, I'm stuck reading it on my iPod Touch.
Let me say here and now that reading a .tpz ebook on the iPod Touch (8GB model) is an experience of TOTAL SUCKDOM!!! The damn thing takes three-four seconds to 'decrypt' each and every single PAGE!!! (BTW, the novel with this problem is "The American Zone" which ran to about 350 pages in HC, but it used a fairly 'large' typeface and could probable have fit into 200 pages if it had gone to a more 'typical' font.)
Derek