[ipaq38vette]

Does anyone know of an easy and free way to convert from a .pdf ebook to a Reader .lit ebook while retaining all of the chapter formatting?

[ipaq38vette]

Does anyone know of an easy and free way to convert from a .pdf ebook to a Reader .lit ebook while retaining all of the chapter formatting?

[griffin911]

Use readerworks, its free!!
http://www.overdrive.com/readerworks...ownload=RWSTAN

[ipaq38vette]

Thanks- Ill check it out.

[ctmagnus]

Free ReaderWorks doesn't accept PDf as input though. Or that was my experience.

[davidspalding]

Originally Posted by griffin911

Use readerworks, its free!!
http://www.overdrive.com/readerworks...ownload=RWSTAN

i don't see anything on the Readerworks information pages to indicate it imports or opens .PDF files, so I'd say your answer doesn't really match the question. :roll:

i think the OP would have to convert the PDF into a reasonable HTML file, and use Readerworks, Mobipocket Publisher (also free for personal use) or the Word RMR conversion plug-in (guess what, also free) to conver the HTML file to a .LIT. The trick is in keeping Chapter headings/links. Mobipocket's tool can help generate a "chapter file" from the HTML, but it's based on formatting. if you paste the straight text from Acrobat to an HTML source file, you'd have to do some formatting. for a long book, this can get tiresome (i know, i've done it).

but at that point, consider reading the HTML file in uBook or Mobipocket Reader, both of which offer more functionality and usability than MS Reader. and, unlike Microsoft's lame duck, don't require the "eBook" to be in a proprietary format.

[Martin I Pettinger]

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I didn't read the full message thread and downloaded the ReaderWorks Manual only to discover no mention of PDF input either. I also was disappointed to see that you need Word 2000 or higher for ReaderWorks to work - so that counts me out anyway as I have Word 97.

However what I do have is Adobe Acrobat 5 and this has an option to save a PDF document as RTF. So using Word 97 I can save this RTF file as HTML and then use MobiPocket Web Companion to create an eBook. That's the theory anyway :-)

Martin

[hpf]

I heard that Mobipocket is about to release a PDF converter. This would be great, as Mobi Reader can be run on PPC but also Palm and Nokia Smartphones !

Originally Posted by ipaq38vette

Does anyone know of an easy and free way to convert from a .pdf ebook to a Reader .lit ebook while retaining all of the chapter formatting?

[Jonlarman]

Originally Posted by Martin I Pettinger

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However what I do have is Adobe Acrobat 5 and this has an option to save a PDF document as RTF. So using Word 97 I can save this RTF file as HTML and then use MobiPocket Web Companion to create an eBook.

Martin

That should work, but the free Reader conversion plugin from MS will convert from RTF to LIT. I've converted my PDFs using Acrobat 6 to RTF, and then to LIT. The formatting stays pretty intact and you can even import the cover image.