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Old 10-17-2007, 11:56 PM   #2
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I noticed that when MobiPocket Reader first opens a file (e.g. file.prc) that isn't in the special "MobiPocket" directory it makes a subdirectory named file.prc and copies the original file.prc into it with a manifest.xml and a file.mbp. The manifest.xml contains "file.prc" as the Title, and this is why contentLister displays this (I think). You may be able to edit the manifest.xml to show something else - but I don't know much about how manifest files work. The .mbp file is something particular to MobiPocket Reader, and it isn't plain text, but it may well contain the kind of information that the contentLister "should" be displaying.

For files not yet opened by the MobiPocket Reader (e.g. opened by FBReader, or by nothing at all), most list the filename in the contentLister but a few list the ebook's formal title (presumably taken from inside the file). The pattern I think I see is that these are the .mobi files, rather than .prc files. But they might be uncompressed files (or some other special case - all are without encryption). I don't know if there is any difference between .mobi and .prc MobiPocket e-books, except the extension itself.

I would like the contentlister to list both the filename and the book title. Without the filename it can be hard to line up the contentLister with the directory listing when connected via usb to a desktop.

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