Format
Microsoft Reader eBook
Summary
- Name
- Microsoft Reader eBook
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/867
- Format type
- Text (Structured)
- Description
- This eBook format was developed by Microsoft for use with the now discontinued Microsoft Reader software. The format itself is derived from the Microsoft Compiled HTML Help format.
- File extensions
-
lit - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Microsoft Corporation
- Supported by
- Microsoft Corporation
Internal signatures
LIT (MS Reader)
- Note
- BOF: ITOLITLS
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
49544F4C49544C53- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V84
- Release date
- 21 January 2016
Microsoft Reader eBook: Signature developed through PRONOM Research. Submitted by Stefan Kovalovsky.
Microsoft Reader eBook: Full entry added. Submitted by Stefan Kovalovsky.