# eBook Readers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 6, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebook-readers/545756 "2010-07-06T19:07:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebook-readers/545756/1 "2010-07-06T19:07:15Z")
I have Microsoft Reader on my computer with almost 500 ebooks. I want to buy a Kindle or other type of reader, but would like to know if I can transfer my 500 ebooks to it and be able to read them. Which one would be the best and easiest to be able to transfer my books? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebook-readers/545756/2 "2010-07-06T19:23:47Z")
Wikipedia has a nice article with extensive comparison tables: [Comparison of e-book readers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_readers) I use [calibre](http://calibre-ebook.com/) to reformat books as needed for my iPad. It’s free, and comes in both Mac, Windows and Linux versions. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebook-readers/545756/3 "2010-07-06T21:45:56Z")
Calibre works quite well for translating Microsoft Reader books to Mobipocket format, so you should be okay if you get a Kindle. I don’t know of any readers that natively support the LIT format, though, which is a shame because it’s significantly better than the Mobipocket format. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ebook-readers/545756/4 "2010-07-07T18:20:09Z")
From what I can recall, I’ve had no problems converting a number of .lit format books to something that can be read by my Kindle.