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Originally Posted by Jim Thompson
Been encountering frustrations and am sharing them for the sake of anyone else as uninformed as me:
I tried purchasing a lit file (microsoft reader) because Calibre's documentation indicates that is it's their easiest file to translate. After I paid for the lit file, I was informed that I would need to install Microsoft Publisher on my computer before it would download. Half way through the Microsoft Publisher install, I was informed that I needed to create a Microsoft Passport Account to activate the software. After doing all of that (and approving installation of Active-X controls I don't understand or want), the lit file still would not download and purusing help screens indicates that Microsoft Publisher can only work on a hand-held device; i.e., not on a desktop computer. I contacted tech support at the eBook publisher to aks if I would have more luck with MOBI or EPUB. That's where things stand currently. I'll update again when I learn more.
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Sounds to me like your file type handling is messed up. You should be able to download and "Save to Disk" instead of opening it with an application.
Where are you purchasing/downloading from? Is the file DRM protected or open?
This is probably the wrong thread for this discussion in any case. You might want to ask in the Calibre or some other subforum.