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[catsittingstill]

So here's a shout out to all my friendslist who read e-books--anybody have suggestions about conversion programs that

1) work on a Mac (because Macs are all I have--a PC only conversion program like MobiPocket Creator is a non-starter, alas)

and

2) convert from various ebook formats or word processing formats (Word would be nice, HTML would be nice, epub would be *particularly* nice, and rtf would be nice--other formats would be nice too but less sought after) into unsecured Mobipocket format?

Several of these formats Amazon will convert for free to Kindle format, but I'd like to have the conversion process under my control if possible.

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Rumor's out around LJ that it's your birthday. So

Happy Birthday to you
HapPy Birthday ^TOOO you
HaPpy ^BIRTHday dear Caaa_AAAT
^HappY Birth_{day TOOOOO YOOOOUUUUUU}

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Hippo Birdies Two Ewe... :)

[xap]

Happy Birthday!

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Catherine, Catherine, you're a wonder
And when you are old and gray
We will all say, yes by Thunder!
You were some gal in your day!

***tootle!****

[telynor.livejournal.com]

I have used eBook Studio for the Mac with great success.

[tollermom]

We've not found a good Mobi converter/creator for the Mac, so all of ours (I work for a publishing company) are being done under Windows. However, they're still being done on a Mac, as we run Parallels and then run Mobi Creator under Parallels. (Same would work under VMWare's virtual machine.) If all you need it for is ebook creation, though, that's a pricy solution, by the time you buy Parallels and a Windows license.

Oh, and Happy Birthday!

[mdlbear]

Happy b'day again!

OpenOffice does a good job of converting Microsoft Office files to PDF, but that's probably not helpful in the present case.

The cheapest solution may be to get a used Windows machine -- something in the $50-100 range -- and run it headless using VNC (what Leopard calls "screen sharing"). A Mac and a Windows box are perfectly happy to share files.

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

To a certain song I've heard in the past...

Ebooks I would wish for, to read from a screen,
without trundling paperbacks or hardbooks, I mean.
I'll have gray hair and be hip so the teens will not scold,
and if questioned I will answer, "It's great to get old!"

It's great to get old, get over your fears.
When birthdays follow others, the next ones are near.
I'll say what I want, be outrageous and bold,
cause life is for living and it's great to get old!

Happy birthday! Okay, so that doggerel ... got away from me. My understanding is that HTML is viewable natively within a Kindle (i.e., if you transfer via SD card).