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lizcastro · 01-12-2012, 02:18 PM

Whoa. I didn't realize. I sort of knew that mobi was this big mass of data, but didn't realize to what extent. So, if I understand correctly, mobi_unpack reverse engineers the mobi and then generates what the individual files would look like if they were individual files?

So it's not KindleGen that renames them, it's mobi_unpack, but it does so because it has no other choice, since the names are lost in the conversion to mobi?

But the kindlegensrc.zip file actually comes from a real, existing EPUB that's sitting there in the mobi file created by KindleGen?

Going to set WRITE_RAW_DATA to True now to see what happens.

thanks!

Liz

01-12-2012, 02:18 PM	#245
lizcastro Member Posts: 16 Karma: 148 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: iPad, NOOK, Kindle, Kobo	Whoa. I didn't realize. I sort of knew that mobi was this big mass of data, but didn't realize to what extent. So, if I understand correctly, mobi_unpack reverse engineers the mobi and then generates what the individual files would look like if they were individual files? So it's not KindleGen that renames them, it's mobi_unpack, but it does so because it has no other choice, since the names are lost in the conversion to mobi? But the kindlegensrc.zip file actually comes from a real, existing EPUB that's sitting there in the mobi file created by KindleGen? Going to set WRITE_RAW_DATA to True now to see what happens. thanks! Liz