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mhguda · 04-05-2010, 10:48 PM

Hi,
I'm new to the forum and I don't have a dedicated ereader; I have a Palm Lifedrive running (among other softreaders) mobipocket. I recently bought a netbook running windows 7 and I thought I'd use the pc version of mobipocket as a reader on it. That works well, and I thought to bring my whole library of ebooks into it. Here I ran into a problem, with the Palmreader format documents, which mobipocket won't read. I was looking for a solution when I found calibre, and it seemed to be the answer to my problem. But I'm running into a snag with a large file (7MB pdb) - it seems to take forever to convert. It sat at 1% for almost half an hour before I gave up. I tried both EPUB and MOBI formats, with the same result. This is the CIA world factbook for 2009. I also find that calibre can't seem to open this book, it just sits there loading...
I suppose I could also install ereader, but was hoping calibre could do the job. I've only just found it but I like how configurable it is, and would like to use it.
Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

04-05-2010, 10:48 PM	#309
mhguda Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Palm Lifedrive	question regarding conversion of large files to mobipocket Hi, I'm new to the forum and I don't have a dedicated ereader; I have a Palm Lifedrive running (among other softreaders) mobipocket. I recently bought a netbook running windows 7 and I thought I'd use the pc version of mobipocket as a reader on it. That works well, and I thought to bring my whole library of ebooks into it. Here I ran into a problem, with the Palmreader format documents, which mobipocket won't read. I was looking for a solution when I found calibre, and it seemed to be the answer to my problem. But I'm running into a snag with a large file (7MB pdb) - it seems to take forever to convert. It sat at 1% for almost half an hour before I gave up. I tried both EPUB and MOBI formats, with the same result. This is the CIA world factbook for 2009. I also find that calibre can't seem to open this book, it just sits there loading... I suppose I could also install ereader, but was hoping calibre could do the job. I've only just found it but I like how configurable it is, and would like to use it. Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.