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Old 10-25-03, 08:05 AM   #1 (permalink)
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E-book to word
Is there a way to transfer MS ebook and Adobe ebooks into word files? Thanks for your help

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Old 10-26-03, 02:50 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I assume that by "word" you mean Microsoft Word 6 or 2002, though the answer is the same for any word processing software.

There are some <expensive> enterprise solutions that allow reconversion of Adobe pdf files; none that I know of that allow reconversion of Microsoft Reader *.lit files.

The question is one of copyright protection; if your only copy of something you yourself did is in one of these formats, and you want to modify it, and (to emphasize) you are the copyright holder, then you probably gave yourself printing privileges, can print out your file, run it through a scanner and OCR software, and have it back in MS Word or whatever word processor.

Since both Adobe and MS Reader, as well as my favorite, Mobipocket, allow bookmarking and annotation, why would you want to change formats?

If you have Adobe Acrobat, you have even more ways to deal with *.pdf files.
Again, why do you want to? Is it fair use of copyrighted materials, or something else?
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I want to copy the text to my speed reader, that is it. Thanks for your help.
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Reading the source ebook in your speedreader sounds like fair use to me, but I'm not a lawyer.

I suspect that the best thing to do is to contact the ebook companies directly, then record the phone conversaion.


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I think that i am going to leave it alone. Thanks for your advise.
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there's a command-line program out there called "clit" (short for ConvertLit) that will convert your .lit files into .html. I use it to reformat some of the books I download from Blackmask Online so they look better on my Axim. Can't find the link right now, I'm sure Google knows where it is (that is, as long as you include MS reader or something along with the program name).

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