What is a .djvu File and How to Open it?

[dextercioby]

I've found some valuable documents (mostly books) which are in electronic format,however with a (to me) unknown extension:
$$.djvu$$

Can someone knowledgeable please tell me what those letters mean and how (meaning) what software need i use to open the documents...??

Thanking you in advance...

Daniel.

 

[Doc Al]

Here's a link that may help (just found via google - I know nothing about djvu except what I learned in the last 60 seconds):

http://www.djvuzone.org/wid/index.html

 

[noelhustler]

djvu is a very good document compression format (much better than pdf).

You can get viewers from here or here or here

 

[dextercioby]

Thank you... Now i feel like an idiot,because i erased the documents from the HDD and i got to dld them again...

Daniel.