Tools for converting files for reading on DSLibris

I’ve been wanting to read certain e-books on my DS Lite and I didn’t really search much about the topic until recently. I also thought that I might have to use Windows to do whatever file conversion. We Linux users actually have tools available to us already
Enter DSLibris. DSLibris is a homebrew app for the DS Lite. You could use it if you have a DSTT or an R4 card. (I am not too sure if it works fine on other such cards.) This reader supports only the xhtml format so you need to convert your files first if ever. Most of the e-books I see are in PDF but luckily there is a pdftohtml tool. So here are the steps:

1. Download the DSLibris archive from Sourceforge.
2. Unpack the archive and copy the files to the root directory of the microSD you use on your DSTT (R4, or whatever).
3. Convert the PDF file to HTML using the pdftohtml tool.
4. Clean up the file and convert it to XHTML using Tidy. Luckily there is an online version of Tidy if you don’t want to install it. Make sure that you check the “Output XHTML” box so that you could save it in that format.
5. Put the converted file into the book directory of DSLibris.

So far, I’ve only put two files and the first file I’ve put there is the one it recognizes as the primary ebook.

In any case, I just thought of sharing this with you who are on using GNU/Linux and are finding ways on how to use your DS as an e-book reader.