Thread: calibre: most desired feature, pony up for Kovid
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Old 06-03-2008, 09:03 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
So while calibre supports conversion *from* mobi I'm reluctant to add support for conversion *to* mobi.

I expect the next generation of e-book readers to support epub, (except for the Kindle, because Amazon is on its own trip), so I'd much rather code html2epub.
One approach would be to standardize on ePub as the archive format. Then there would be X2epub importers and epub2Y exporters, but no explicit X2Y converters. For a comprehensive package there would need to be an epub2mobi, but this would be just one of several "reader" formats. I also like the idea, originally discussed on teleread, for an epub2web converter, where "web" is the (exploded) epub plus additional html files to allow the ebook to be read by a standard web browser.
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