Argghh I wish the meizu had an option for fixed-width fonts - its so annoying trying to read things with ascii diagrams in and tables of data O-o.
Can I also add that for .lit (microsoft e-book files) there is a free converter called
ConvertLIT GUI which will convert the e-book into HTML. You can then use the, also free,
HTMLAsText to turn it into an ascii text document. Hope this saves someone as much time and trouble as it took me =]
Also, if you are using TextPad, you can select everything, make sure word-wrapping is on, and click on edit > reformat. TextPad's 'join lines' takes it pretty literally - everything ends up on one single line.