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Originally Posted by jusmee
I think it's more likely that Coolreader examines what is in the file to find out how to display it. Most linux stuff does not depend on extensions to determine file type - that's a Window's infliction on the world of computing. The renaming trick is just to fool the host system into using Coolreader rather than ADE.
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Yes, of course, that is what CoolReader itself does, and always has done. The extra name extension is just for the bookshelf application. For instance, when FB2 is added to the extension of an EPUB file the bookshelf application shows the file type icon for an FB2 file instead of it's true file type. That is also how shell scripts and binary executables are passed to CoolReader for execution.