Guest muzzio_giovanni Posted May 15, 2004 Report Posted May 15, 2004 hi i'm searching for a program for read the .lit ebook can seom1 help me?
Guest Blakey Posted May 17, 2004 Report Posted May 17, 2004 Tiny eBook Reader reads .lit eBooks. You can get it off handango. Cheers Blakey
Guest tcwatkins Posted May 17, 2004 Report Posted May 17, 2004 But it won't read locked lit files. So you can't just buy a book at Amazon and read it. Man, the first MS Smartphone program which reads locked files will be a best seller.
Guest Blakey Posted May 18, 2004 Report Posted May 18, 2004 Eh? What does that mean? Does that mean I can't use it to read .lit books I've paid for and downloaded? Or my 200 free classics which are out of copyright? What is the difference between a "locked" and an "unlocked" book? If I find out I can't read my .lit books on my smartphone I'm going to be upset as this was the main reason I got this phone!!! :-( (Only got my E200 yesterday and am planning on testing out Tiny eBook Reader tonight, so I guess I'll be able to answer my own questions later...) Blakey
Guest idavid Posted May 18, 2004 Report Posted May 18, 2004 let us know what works and what doesn't. i am keen to find out too.
Guest Blakey Posted May 18, 2004 Report Posted May 18, 2004 Damn! I've only got the trial version of eBook Reader and you need the full version to be able to read .LIT files - so I'm unable to test this as yet. Am sending the writers an email - will let you know what I find out... Blakey
Guest tcwatkins Posted May 19, 2004 Report Posted May 19, 2004 Eh? What does that mean? Does that mean I can't use it to read .lit books I've paid for and downloaded? Or my 200 free classics which are out of copyright? What is the difference between a "locked" and an "unlocked" book? If I find out I can't read my .lit books on my smartphone I'm going to be upset as this was the main reason I got this phone!!! :-( (Only got my E200 yesterday and am planning on testing out Tiny eBook Reader tonight, so I guess I'll be able to answer my own questions later...) Blakey Yeppers, anything you have paid for is probably locked with DRM (Digital Rights Management) by MS. I am not sure about freebooks. They are probably not locked. It sucks.... This is why people crack locked files. To use stuff they already bought.
Guest Blakey Posted May 19, 2004 Report Posted May 19, 2004 Sadly you're right. :-( I can access all of my 200 classical out of copyright stuff, but none of my recent, PAID FOR stuff will read on Tiny eBook Reader. So, I have to decide if I want to take the phone back and get an XDA II or accept that I'll have to only read my free stuff on my phone. Very disappointing. :-( Blakey
Guest Blakey Posted May 20, 2004 Report Posted May 20, 2004 Well, I've given Tiny eBook Reader a bit of a play this week. Overall I'm not all that impressed. Here are my comments: The application won't allow you to read "locked" .LIT books (it does say this so that's fair enough - my ignorance was not knowing what that meant). The application doesn't remember where you got up to in a book. It's okay if the book reader stays in memory (obviously) but when it gets popped out or if you shut it down with a task manager then it loses its place. You can set bookmarks - which I tried to use to remember my place. However these don't seem to work at all. I set a book mark on page 96 of my book. I shut the application down and restarted it. I opened the book and went to the bookmark I'd set. What it did was to change the page number on the screen to 96, but not move the actual book anywhere at all - it was still on page 1. Totally unhelpful... I've sent an email to the producers but have had no reply yet (2 days). Cheers Blakey P.S. Off to handango to rate this now I think...
Guest The_Flames Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 Tiny eBook Reader will rember were you have got to, but you have to goto the book selection screen, then it rember were you have goto. I's a bit of a pain but it works ... I find if you select the help file it closes the app aswell, so you keep a record were your upto and exit the app with only 3 keypresses :)
Guest Blakey Posted May 27, 2004 Report Posted May 27, 2004 Well the makers of Tiny have been in contact with me and have sent me a new version to test. Will give it a go and report. However in the meantime I've downloaded MobiPocket which is free and works like a dream. Okay, so I have to convert my .LIT files to .PRC format but with a free application called CLIT (I kid you not) and with the Mobi Publisher (also free) this is a fairly simple two step task per book. So I expect to be sticking with Mobi. BTW, for those interested CLIT is available at www.convertlit.com. It's a very stable and very effective program for converting .LIT to open format. However it is only command line driven at present. It could really do with a flashy GUI to front end it if someone has some spare time... :-) Blakey
Guest skramblr Posted May 29, 2004 Report Posted May 29, 2004 Checked out the converter, but it seems to convert from .lit to OEBPS or into DRM1 format. Didn't seen anything about a .PRC
Guest skramblr Posted June 1, 2004 Report Posted June 1, 2004 Ended up answering my own question. You have to use the CLIT util to convert the LIT file to OEBPS (HTML) format. Then you use the utility in MobiPocket to convert the HTML files into PRC format. I used it to convert the free issue of PocketPC magazine from LIT to PRC - worked ok.
Guest chucky.egg Posted March 10, 2005 Report Posted March 10, 2005 I'm looking at this now that PocketPC Magazine eBooks are a Plus feature, but it seems like a load of hassle... download the file, convert to HTML, convert to PRC, repeat for every book (and every edition of PocketPC Mag) No news since June last year, so... Is there a simpler way yet? Is Tiny any better now than it used to be (don't want to have to pay to find out!) Are there any other options?
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