My e-books have funny symbols in the text. Also they skip parts of sentences entirely.

Try:
The Recovery ToolBox for Address Book tool makes it possible to recover contact information from the Windows Address Book where data used by the mail clients Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express (*.wab files) is stored.

For more information: https://addressbook.recoverytoolbox.com/

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This should definitely help you.

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Install ANU 7.0, there you will find "convert old text", click it. Go to the old file, highlight the whole text and click convert. ANU 7.0 will convert the whole text into ANU 7.0 compatible mode.

Hey! follow the steps to get your job done


You can import address book contacts from other Microsoft Windows® Address Book files (.wab), as well as from Netscape Communicator, Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book, or any text (.csv) file.
For Windows Address Book 1.
On the File menu, point to Import, and then click Address Book.
2.
Select the address book or file type you want to import, and then click Open.

For All Other Address Book Formats 1.
On the File menu, point to Import, and then click Other Address Book.
2.
Click the address book or file type you want to import, and then click Open.

If your address book is not listed, you can export it to either a text (.csv) file or a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) or Lightweight Directory Interchange Format (LDIF) file, and then import it using that file type.



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if your recording your audio books from cd, then they should be put into tracks, just make sure to put a number before any actual text (the first part of the book labled 01 - audiobookname) and it should play them in order. if its a file over an hour long i would look for software to break up the file into smaller (more digestable) segments. its a software limitation of the sony network walkmans that has gone back since the beginning of the network walkman product line.

however, guessing that these are downloaded audio books mostlikely, it then becomes a conversion problem.

i did a google search for
audiobook to mp3 converter
and found a few things, but all those solutions wouldnt help much here. your looking for something fast easy and free.... i'm still searching for a solution that includes the free... but for the meantime see if this helps you
http://www.maniactools.com/soft/m4a-to-mp3-converter/audio-books-m4b-to-mp3-converter.shtml

convert the mp3 files to wma on a computer and then try

AppleWorks was a great program. I miss some of it's features. But there isn't anything that is going to open them up to edit them, other than appleworks. You need to convert them into something else that will work for you. I agree with the other solution that putting them into a PDF format would work. You could then open them with Adobe Illustrator, and convert them to that format.
I have heard that EazyDraw can open them, but I have not worked with it.
I know this may be a stale question, but I can offer my services to convert these files for you: [email protected]

I just stumbled on this one. Actually it's EASY! Open up your contacts list in Notes, go to the File menu, choose export. You can pick either "Structured Text", "Tabular Text", or "Comma Separated Value". All of these import well into either of those programs.

There's a Russian site that has software called book designer 4. Not the new version, but version 4. You can convert any text, html or word file. (Depending on your version of Word.) You can also use a LIT converter to convert LIT files to html.

Since I'm a huge fan fiction reader, this works for me. Good Luck!