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Dec. 3rd, 2007 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillSo 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-12-04 04:36 am (UTC)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.