I know that many of the Russian staff have been at a certain point approached by a patron who has has an e-reader, does not know what to do with it, but wants to read Russian books on it. Many of such readers are brought from Russia or Europe and some support formats we have never even heard of. What can we do?
Well, we can use Calibre (see my previous posts)... But if the patron is unwilling to understand how Calibre works, there is another means.The good news (especially for e-readers supporting extremely obscure formats) is that now there is an official Russian language site http://www.litres.ru/ where one can find legitimate books in a variety of formats.
This is just a short list of formats available for the same title on the site: rtf.zip ,txt ,txt.zip ,fb2.zip ,epub, html.zip ,a4.pdf ,a6.pdf , java, doc.prc.zip ,rb ,lit ,mobi.prc ,lrf ,isilo3.pdb .
I also have to mention that this is an online bookstore . However, their e-books are quite inexpensive (under $5 average), besides it might be a very good solution for someone who wants to read Russian e-books in the US and does not want to get into technical details
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