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Converting e-books to Kindle Format

Helphand — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:24:36 +0000

A great source of e-book conversion utilities can be found at http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_conversion. There you will find various commercial, opensource and freeware programs that can handle file formats like LRF, CHM, LIT, HTML, PDF, RTF, PDB and DOC and convert them to formats that the Kindle can handle.

I’ve used the opensource Calibre EBook Management Software and can recommend it without hesitation. It’s available for Windows, Linux & the Apple OS X platforms.

Amazon Kindle File Formats

AZW
TXT
MOBI
PRC

Note that Amazon offers its conversion via email service for the following file formats;

Word DOC
HTML
JPEG
TXT
GIF
PNG
BMP
PDF (experimental, results vary)

Software like earlier mentioned Calibre can handle additional formats, such as;

CBZ
CBR
CBC
CHM
EPUB
FB2
LIT
LRF
ODT
PDB
PML
RB
RTF
SNB
TCR

Palm Desktop File Formats

Helphand — Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:40:13 +0000

The file formats for the Palm Desktop files below can be found here .

datebook.dat and datebook.dba
memopad.dat and memopad.mpa
address.dat and address.aba
todo.dat and todo.tda
users.dat

These formats apply to the Windows version of the PalmOS Desktop software, not to the native versions of these files.

Reading Palm Desktop Files

Helphand — Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:40:14 +0000

Programming information on how to go about reading the Palm Desktop files can be found here. There are several user submitted code examples in various languages, such as Perl, Java, Python and Visual Basic.