How to open .azw or .prc (mobireader) files

[Josef Lowder]

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> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > Is there any way to open and read .azw or .prc (mobireader) 
> > files with Linux?

On Sun, 04 May 2008 10:54, Joseph Sinclair wrote
> Have you looked at FBReader (http://www.fbreader.org/)?  It's 
> supposed to handle the .PRC files (provided there's no DRM!), and 
> runs on Linux as well as a bunch of other platforms, it's also Free 
> Software (GPL).

Thanks Joseph.  I've downloaded it ... the website says to extract 
it in the root directory.  Does that sound right?  I don't recall ever 
seeing instructions to extract a program in the root directory before.