What is a .LIT file?
LIT was Microsoft Reader’s e-book format.
- Did you know
- Microsoft discontinued its Reader and the LIT e-book format in 2012.
- LIT, short for “literature”, is an extension of Microsoft’s Compiled HTML Help format with digital rights management added.
- Microsoft Reader rendered LIT books using ClearType, the company’s subpixel font technology for sharper on-screen text.
- What Analyser reads
- Open documents, ebooks and publishing files beyond Office: comic books (CBZ/CBT with ComicInfo + first-page preview; CBR/CB7 identified), Microsoft XPS, FictionBook FB3, iBooks, Scrivener, Visio VSDX, R Markdown/Quarto, RTFD, WARC/MAFF web archives, TeX DVI, legacy Hangul HWP, and WordPerfect/QuarkXPress/PageMaker identification.
- Depth of analysis
- .LIT is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .LIT file
- Drag a .LIT file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.