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  I had no idea that eReaders even had formats, but I
see here....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats#Microsoft_LIT

...that there are dozens of them. And I had no idea that
one doesn't even need to buy an eReader gadget to read
or stream restricted and/or spyware books. One can do it
on a PC. Such a relief...

   At that page it says that .LIT is similar to .CHM, and that some
software can convert .LIT to HTML files. CHM files are actually
just a website in a compressed file. I don't know offhand what the
compression is, but the free 7-ZIP can open them. I downloaded
a LIT file and find that, indeed, 7-ZIP can open it. There are various
files inside, such as a manifest, TOC, JPG files, etc. But according to
7-ZIP, the DRM and content files are treated with an unknown
"EBEncrypt" method. When I extracted the LIT contents I found
that the two files 7-ZIP shows as encrypted have no content at all,
even though 7-ZIP shows them with content. I don't know whether
7-ZIP is just creating an empty file that it can't write to, or whether
Microsoft is somehow using calculated file corruption to make it
extract that way. I guess the former possibility is more likely.

  So 7-ZIP seems to be able to give you everything *except*
the text. The program you mentioned seems to be Convert Lit,
not "cvtlit". That program is open source, so you should be
able to work out all the details if you want to. Convert Lit must
include both extraction and decrypting.


| (( and yes, I know I'm in the wrong group, but hope some of you might have
| tried to do the same thing. ))
|
| I'm now trying to read the header of a .LIT (MS eReader) to pull out the
| author / title.  MS's response has been that the structure is locked by
| design. I've looked at the source for cvtlit but he seems to be interested
| in only that part of the file which he can convert to text.
|
| Does anyone have, or know of where I can find a way of retreiving
| information from an ereader file.
|
| //al 

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