[Cialug] Linux-based Sony Librie LRF Reader/convertor?

[Jerry Heiselman]

On 8/6/07, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have come across some .lrf files that I would like to read.  LRF is the
> format used by the Sony Librie e-book reader.  I don't have one of those, so
> I would ideally like to convert these files into something sensible like
> PDF.  Does anyone know of a good Linux utility to do this?  I have done some
> searching (apt-cache, google, and freshmeat) but didn't find anything for
> Linux.
>
> I no longer have any dedicated Windows machines.  If all else fails, I
> could presumably fire up kvm/qemu and use the real Sony software to *view*
> the files, but that's pretty gross.  :-/
>
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Last time I was looking into this kind of thing, I discovered that most of
those formats are proprietary and that no one has really taken the time to
reverse-engineer them (not to mention the legal problems of doing so).

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Jerry H
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