Readable text and audio formats?

[Travis Siegel]

On Sep 23, 2005, at 11:24 PM, Paul Migliorelli (+1 3 0 3 5 1 9 5 3 4  
6 <paulmigs at migliorelli.org> wrote:

> Hi all.  Occasionally I get daring and try looking at possible reading
> matter for books and magazines.  I came across subscription for  
> Fantasy
> and science fiction magazine which I've always enjoyed.  It lists  
> digital
> formats that I assume you use with your handheld whatever.  Not having
> paid much attention to these kind of developments, I was wondering  
> if any
> of these are usable by us?  I know audible dot com needs win to use I

AAlmost any of those formats will work for us.  I've used pdb, lit,  
and pdf as well as standard mp3 formats.  The easiest by far is to  
download the pdb formats from fictionwise, (since they're not  
encrypted as they are directly from f&sf) then run a script on it to  
convert it back to text, then use any reader you like.  I'd give you  
the name of the package I use, but I can't think of it at the  
moment.  I'll dig it up next time I'm on the linux box, and send it  
along.