Readable text and audio formats?

[hank smith]

what other magizeens are there that use this?
thanks
hank
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From: "Travis Siegel" <tsiegel at softcon.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: Readable text and audio formats?


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> 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:
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>> 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.
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