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kovidgoyal · 08-27-2011, 01:51 AM

Hi all,

calibre version 0.8.16, released today, has a new MOBI output plugin. This is based on a month long effort to further reverse engineer the parts of the MOBI format that were still opaque.

The major bug that the new plugin fixes is that periodicals (news/magazines) created with calibre now have fully working navigation on the Kindle 3. When you click on View articles and sections while reading an article, the Kindle now returns to the current article in the list of articles. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/748741 for details

In addition various small things were figured out that should make the MOBI files produced by calibre have a binary structure closer to those produced by Amazon's tools. Note that the "binary structure" refers to internals of the MOBI file, not the text formatting, which remains the same as before.

Since the new plugin is a complete rewrite, it may well have bugs, so I would appreciate it if a few of you turned it on and tested it over the next week or two, before I release it widely.

To enable the new plugin, go to Preferences->Tweaks, click the "Plugin Tweaks" button and type

Code:

new_mobi_writer = True

into the box and then click OK and Apply. This will enable the new MOBI output plugin.

Report any problems you encounter here.

Thanks.

08-27-2011, 01:51 AM	#1
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,850 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	New MOBI output plugin, testing needed Hi all, calibre version 0.8.16, released today, has a new MOBI output plugin. This is based on a month long effort to further reverse engineer the parts of the MOBI format that were still opaque. The major bug that the new plugin fixes is that periodicals (news/magazines) created with calibre now have fully working navigation on the Kindle 3. When you click on View articles and sections while reading an article, the Kindle now returns to the current article in the list of articles. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/748741 for details In addition various small things were figured out that should make the MOBI files produced by calibre have a binary structure closer to those produced by Amazon's tools. Note that the "binary structure" refers to internals of the MOBI file, not the text formatting, which remains the same as before. Since the new plugin is a complete rewrite, it may well have bugs, so I would appreciate it if a few of you turned it on and tested it over the next week or two, before I release it widely. To enable the new plugin, go to Preferences->Tweaks, click the "Plugin Tweaks" button and type Code: new_mobi_writer = True into the box and then click OK and Apply. This will enable the new MOBI output plugin. Report any problems you encounter here. Thanks.