Thanks a lot, that's great info! Nektarios. -----Original Message----- From: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of robert dybas Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 6:30 AM To: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [guispeak] Re: : Microsoft ebook reader and the *.lit format. - method of converting there exits a command line program called convert lit convert lit converts lit files into html files. info is here: http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/convlit.php as of this date, a windows version may be downloaded at: http://www.convertlit.com/clit18.zip a gui front end for the command line version is available here: http://www.hot.ee/dukelupus/ConvertLIT.htm the download link is: http://www.hot.ee/dukelupus/ConvertLIT%20GUI%20v2.0.exe i have not yet tested the gui 2.0 as to it's speech reader friendliness. there also exists a set of batch files that allows the conversion program to be associated with the right click menu to allow easier use this worked with c lit 1.5 but i have not tested it with 1.8. i do not see a source for these right click files available in a quick check on google. r. a. d. whether the blind loophole in the copyright law applies to this is a = legal matter that i have not heard anyone address. On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:47:02 +0200, you wrote: >Thanks for this. >Do you know if there is any other way to extract the text from the >*.lit file and read it in other standard programs? > >Nektarios. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf >Of Will Pearson >Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:55 PM >To: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [guispeak] Re: Microsoft ebook reader and the *.lit format. > > >Hi; > >Whilst MS Reader isn't supported by any of the screen readers, there is >a plug in. Microsoft have provided a text to speech plug in for Reader >that will read aloud the document. It's based on MS SAPI, and uses the >standard SAPI synth that ships with Windows. You can find a download >for this from the Reader downloads page. > >Will >----- Original Message -----=20 >From: "Nektarios Mallas" <nmallas@xxxxxxxxx> >To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:39 AM >Subject: [guispeak] Microsoft ebook reader and the *.lit format. > > >> Hello list. >> Is Microsoft ebook reader accessible by screen readers? Is there >> any=20 other way to access a *.lit file and extract the text from it >> so you=20 can read it with standard applications such as wordpad? >> Thanks. 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