The Random Ebooks Questions Post

[elf]

Ask your questions! Get answers! Maybe even useful answers!

Ask anything! Ask about ereaders, or filetypes, or conversion methods, or where to find books, or which authors don't like ebooks, or what software works on which computers, or anything else ebook-related. Preferably, put the question, or part of it, in the subject line. That way, the questions will be easy to find, and new readers who show up can see if their question has been asked before.

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Comments

Re: .lit file reading?

[eva]

I would definitely recommend Calibre for the book sorting and archiving features alone. You can also use it to view epub files. I'd experiment around with the conversions it offers and see which formats you like best. I do much reading on a netbook, so I like to have formats that I can view in programs with a true fullscreen mode without any menu bars, so I might choose pdf or rtf. Sadly, as far as I can see, Calibre doesn't have such a mode in its internal viewer yet.

I'd recommend keeping the original files (Calibre does allow you to keep multiple formats of the same book in the archive). When you get a reader, you can then convert things to whatever format is recommended for that reader; Calibre supports a number of devices.