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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Digital Editions might help in one way. To help standardize things.
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If it's closed, it's doomed to fail. All closed formats fail at some point.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How is a PalmDOC any more open then one of the current ebook formats (except PDF) without DRM?
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PDF is not open. PDF is standard - meaning that the format is available for anyone to create. Well, mostly standard since some features of PDF are not made public (like the DRM that Abobe puts on it).
To me "open" means that I can convert the format to something else.
Once a document is a PDF, you cannot retrieve the original document (or even something useful, IHMO) from the PDF.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm not up on palmDOC that much to really know.
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It was basically made for large memos on the Palm platform. In a sense, it's just a text file - but made readable for the Palm. One of the Mobipocket formats is just an HTML file in a PalmDOC.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But I do know that for example, I can decompile LIT format into HTML
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You can decompile
some LIT files.
Of course, many of those that can be decompiled are usually based on poor HTML in the first place.
But Microsoft has made this format proprietary, so don't expect any reader (except from Microsoft) to support it.