Calibre is a free piece of software that does a fair job of converting between various ebook and electronic formats. This is Gamma-test software, meaning they aren't charging for it because you are testing it for them. It's a bit clunky and not easy to understand, the manual is incomplete, and sometimes the program seems to have stopped for a bit of tea but it does work.
It will take PDF, RTF, TXT, and HTML formats as input and output EPUB, MOBI, and six or eight other formats, as well as converting between almost any pair. As a programmer, I have to say, that's impressive even if the user interface is not yet perfect.
It has a hacker-mode for people who love command lines and it will run under Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
I'm experimenting with it and will probably be making versions of Hatbox entries available in some new formats with it.
Hugs,
Erin
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Cool!
Have to take a look at this, I use Mobipocket on my Windows Mobile Smartphone, it's nice but doesn't play well with .doc files.
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Thanks Erin, we use it to
Thanks Erin, we use it to convert stuff into format for my wife's Palm TX and my iTouch. It is a bit cludgy as you say, but it really does work.
Hugs,
Kristy
Will it split files?
Will it split large ebooks up into smaller chunks? I use an old sony psp for reading ebooks, and have gotten pretty adept at converting from all kinds of formats over to multiple html files for that purpose. The psp has limited memory, so it can't hold an entire ebook in memory, and it would definitely be interested in a program that would automate the hassle. Right now I convert to html if the format I'm converting from supports good header conversion, and then use an html splitting program to divide it at the headers, or I convert to txt, use a file splitting program to divide it into pieces and then convert the pieces over to html, because the PSP has a wierd issue with displaying pure txt files.
I'm not sure. My wife uses
I'm not sure. My wife uses it more then I do, she uses it for her Palm TX, and I use it with my iTouch, so file size is really not something we run into.
Kristy