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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Tech Salsa Update

Convert eBook from One Format to Another

Posted: 07 Feb 2011 04:30 AM PST

eBook is a great way to save paper and comes very handy to carry. For all those who like reading ebooks a lot might have come across this problem sometime that is inability to convert an ebook from one format into another.

Not every ebook reader is able to view or read every ebook as it comes in different formats. Say you get an ebook that you would love to read but is in some format that you have no idea about, what would you do?
Here is the solution, use the tool called Calibre to convert your ebooks from one format to another. Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books.

Calibre is able to read all the following formats:

CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC**, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT

And can convert any of the above formats into any one of the format below:

EPUB, FB2, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PML, RB, PDF, SNB, TCR, TX

You just need to play around with some options to get to know how this tool works.

Download Calibre