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Originally Posted by starrigger
I was surprised to discover that Mobipocket Reader can open .pdb book files. I never knew that. I presume just the nonDRM files, though.
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By default, Mobi reader on Palm devices uses .prc files, but can open .pdb files as well. Both are Palm Database files, and there's nothing specific to the PRC format that Mobi uses. You can rename a Mobi file from .prc to .pdb and it will work.
On Palm devices, Mobi Reader will open Mobipocket files and PalmDOC files (which are normally .pdb files.) PalmDOC files are plain text files using RLE compression to save space, and are decompressed on the fly by viewers that can read them. Mobi uses the Creator and Type fields in the database header to know what kind of file it is and whether it can read it.
eReader also uses pdb files, but Mobi
doesn't read those. eReader has a different underlying format Mobi doesn't know how to display. (There is an eReader Pro version for Windows Mobile -
http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/browse.htm#)
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Dennis