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tompe · 11-25-2007, 06:08 PM

When I realized that there was support for reading and writing mobi files in Perl I got inspired to start to write a mobigen replacement today since my favourite language is Perl.

Now if a set of html files are given to the script a table of content is generated automatically. The script also takes an opf file as input and now it manages to generate a working mobi file for the Alice in Wonderland test example with working images (at least they work in FBReader). The table of content is not working properly but I will look at that. Does anybody know the datastructure for this? I can always just add it in the beginning but if it is possible to do it correctly I will do it.

Now I just save the images in new records. Will this work? I seem to remember some limitations mentioned about the size of a record.

In a couple of days I can make the first alpha version available. But first I want to test the script on some more examples. So does anybody have any recomendation for files to test with? Or know about some well known issues I should check for?

11-25-2007, 06:08 PM	#1
tompe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,452 Karma: 7185064 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Linköpng, Sweden Device: Kindle Voyage, Nexus 5, Kindle PW	html2mobi (a mobigen replacement written in Perl) When I realized that there was support for reading and writing mobi files in Perl I got inspired to start to write a mobigen replacement today since my favourite language is Perl. Now if a set of html files are given to the script a table of content is generated automatically. The script also takes an opf file as input and now it manages to generate a working mobi file for the Alice in Wonderland test example with working images (at least they work in FBReader). The table of content is not working properly but I will look at that. Does anybody know the datastructure for this? I can always just add it in the beginning but if it is possible to do it correctly I will do it. Now I just save the images in new records. Will this work? I seem to remember some limitations mentioned about the size of a record. In a couple of days I can make the first alpha version available. But first I want to test the script on some more examples. So does anybody have any recomendation for files to test with? Or know about some well known issues I should check for?