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Old 12-01-2008, 10:52 AM   #16
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Normally I don't...but between spending $$$ on my car; $$$ on a new laptop; $$ on airfare home for Christmas; Christmas gifts to buy, and the fact I had $74 in Micropay already in my account AND $108 in gift card balances at Amazon I just couldn't justify a large purchase just to run up even more in micropay.
I can appreciate that sort of delima as I had to replace my smartphone recently, and buy some presents for my family.

Luckily, or unluckily that's probably my last major purchases for the next couple of months, so I kind of went wild on the sale, especially as I'm going to have a ton of reading time in December, as I'm going to be travelling quiet a bit and want to avoid the fate or haunting the Airport bookshop
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Old 12-02-2008, 01:02 PM   #17
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BTW: It seems that pocket books has the best price for Star Trek books.

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So, I took a look on their site and they do seem to have the best prices. Any problems with liberating their Microsoft .lit files?
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Old 12-02-2008, 01:03 PM   #18
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So, I took a look on their site and they do seem to have the best prices. Any problems with liberating their Microsoft .lit files?
I haven't yet done it, but I don't see why it would be a problem.

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Old 12-02-2008, 01:16 PM   #19
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I had $44 micropay dollars trapped at Fictionwise. I say trapped because I can't enter and use my Kindle PID (yes, I know I could have used my computer PID). I purchased 6 books in the LIT format. I could have purchased them a bit cheaper at Amazon but I wanted to get my money out. One of them wouldn't convert with any version of ConvertLit (command line or GUI).
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One of them wouldn't convert with any version of ConvertLit (command line or GUI).
Are you sure it was a secured LIT? Did you try to downconvert? What error did you get on the command line?

(BTW: Since I have a Mac I now use my PC's PID and get mobi at FW and use mobidedrm. So far so good.)

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Old 12-02-2008, 01:30 PM   #21
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Are you sure it was a secured LIT? Did you try to downconvert? What error did you get on the command line?

(BTW: Since I have a Mac I now use my PC's PID and get mobi at FW and use mobidedrm. So far so good.)

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Yep, I downconverted. This particular book was the 4th in the series, the rest converted just fine.
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Old 12-02-2008, 01:32 PM   #22
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Yep, I downconverted. This particular book was the 4th in the series, the rest converted just fine.
Hmm... does it open in MS Reader?

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Old 12-02-2008, 01:38 PM   #23
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Hmm... does it open in MS Reader?

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Old 12-02-2008, 02:16 PM   #24
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Yep, I downconverted. This particular book was the 4th in the series, the rest converted just fine.
Can you remove the DRM without converting it? If so, try Calibre's lit2oeb and see if that works.
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Old 12-02-2008, 05:47 PM   #26
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Can you remove the DRM without converting it? If so, try Calibre's lit2oeb and see if that works.
Nope. I've tried GUI downconverting and not downconverting. Command line convertlit 1.8 and 1.5, Vista and XP. I found a thread here on MR of other people having the same issue and they were able to use a Calibre patch Kovid made but it appears those were non-DRM's files. I can't find the thread again.
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Old 12-03-2008, 08:26 PM   #27
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Thank you JSWolf. With your help I was able to get my lit file to convert with no problems. I was even able to use the GUI to do it. Karma to ya!
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Thank you JSWolf. With your help I was able to get my lit file to convert with no problems. I was even able to use the GUI to do it. Karma to ya!
Ok.... so you are going to keep us in suspense... or tell us what the fix was?

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The solution was to use the version of ConvertLIT that Kovid has fixed a bug in.
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Where can one download the fixed version?
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