MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

ATDrake · 09-24-2010, 05:41 PM

Unfortunately, Mobi is not an open or even documented format, so everyone's basically been reverse-engineering it and there's no real way to edit Mobi files as-is.

But you can use various unpacking tools, like the Ebook-Tools perl module, or MobiPerl, or mobiunpack; the latter two of which are the projects of fellow MobileRead members.

These have options to output the specially marked-up Mobipocket variant of HTML that usually gets generated from the original source files, and you can edit and repack once you're satisfied.

09-24-2010, 05:41 PM	#3
ATDrake Wizzard Posts: 11,517 Karma: 33048258 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Roundworld Device: Kindle 2 International, Sony PRS-T1, BlackBerry PlayBook, Acer Iconia	Unfortunately, Mobi is not an open or even documented format, so everyone's basically been reverse-engineering it and there's no real way to edit Mobi files as-is. But you can use various unpacking tools, like the Ebook-Tools perl module, or MobiPerl, or mobiunpack; the latter two of which are the projects of fellow MobileRead members. These have options to output the specially marked-up Mobipocket variant of HTML that usually gets generated from the original source files, and you can edit and repack once you're satisfied.