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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.

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[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).

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the birthday song :-)

Alas, though html *is* one of the formats that Amazon will convert to .azn for you (for free, even if the resulting file is e-mailed to the user's computer, rather than downloaded to the user's Kindle), the Kindle itself can't (at the moment) support html as an e-book.

Though it does have a primitive web browser; I wonder if it's possible to use the browser on an internal file...?

Or as a really bandwidth inefficient workaround, I could post html books on the web from my computer and use the web browser to read them over the EVDO.

OTOH, I have read on one message board that the .azn files created by conversion of user documents are unprotected .prc files, just with a different extension. (And, for that matter, I've seen speculation on that basis that the DRM'd .azn files are just .prc files with a different DRM than normal secure .prc files. I need to find that board again and read more of it.) Anyway, if that's the case then converted documents would be somewhat cross platform compatible (I think). But I've only seen that info in one place, so I'm not sure how trustworthy it is.

Oops, this reply seems to have gotten out of hand and drifted from the real point, which is thank you for the suggestion--I think it may not work but I will check again in the Kindle manual.