opening .lit and .pdb files in linux
.lit and .pdb file formats are generally used for ebooks.The purpose of using these formats is – since there are so many formats changing everyday like word, pdf etc, we need some format(easily convertable ones) to store the ebooks for a longer duration.
for .pdb files : one can use kpalmdoc in linux.The GUI is friendly enough.You need to tell the path of the .pdb file and the name of .txt file.I could not find any working software in windows for opening these.
for .lit files : .lit files can be opened in windows with the help of Microsoft Reader.Reader looks very nice. To open these files in linux you need to download this package. Unzip it , untar it.You’ll have a directory ‘the_clit’
$ cd the_clit;
$ cd lib; make
$ cd ../clit12 ; make ;
now to convert a file issue this command
$ ./clit12 file.lit non_existing_directory/
the backslash (/) incase of non_existing_directory.This creates a few images in the directory we specified along with a file.opf file and file.htm.file.htm can be read from a browser.
Can somebody tell some links from where I can freely download ebooks?.I tried google but it is giving the sites where I need to pay for them.
Pramodh
May 22, 2006 at 12:00 pm
which e-books do you want ra .i got nearly 4 gb of them …but i dont remember the entire links from where i downloaded them ..:(
however, project gutenburg is the best one …:)
May 22, 2006 at 1:17 pm
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June 6, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Hi,there, i tried doing wat u said in m xandros os as a normal user,i got the message that i m unable to exute binary file,i extracted n followed ur commands to d dot.Pls help me,i had lotsa ebuks,but i cant kip logging into windows to read
June 29, 2006 at 4:43 pm
Apparently, for some reason, the file permissions are a bit messed up.
I did the following:
$ chmod -R a+rwx the_clit
$ cd the_clit/lib
$ make
$ cd ../clit12
$ make
$ sudo install clit12 /usr/local/bin
$ cd ../..
$ rm -r the_clit
Do $ clit12 for instructions on use.
August 14, 2006 at 10:23 am
the university of virginia library has many ebooks. all of them free to download.
August 16, 2006 at 3:24 pm
if you do an advanced search for *TITLE* ebook restricted to the *.ru domain you will have better luck. russian sites have a lot of commercial ebooks made free (pirate). i started reading a copy of lunar park the other day and found myself wanting to read some more at work and easily found an ebook version.
as far as I know all the american legitimate sites will have are books who’s copyrights have expired (100 years I beleive). although I could be wrong.
November 3, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Hey, you can get pretty much any e-books you want if you use a torrent client like bittorrent. Just becareful because not all are legally distributed. Check out http://www.ebookshare.com for torrent books.
November 21, 2006 at 4:05 am
Sorry to nitpick, but / is forward slash, \ is backward.
February 25, 2007 at 12:10 pm
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July 13, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Use Mobireader to read pdb .files in Windows
August 9, 2007 at 1:59 am
You can use ISILO, that runs smoothly and has a good interface, if you want to open pdb files in Windows. I am wondering whether the linux based softwares for pdb work for linux OS phones like motorokr e6?
November 13, 2008 at 4:59 pm
the link is broken where else can i find it??