03-28-2009, 11:20 PM | #16 |
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See if this one works.
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03-28-2009, 11:55 PM | #17 |
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03-29-2009, 06:15 PM | #18 |
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Try to convert an ePub file to Mobipocket using mobigen and see if it works.
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03-29-2009, 10:35 PM | #19 |
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04-05-2009, 08:54 AM | #20 |
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In Kindle Formatting: The Complete Guide Joshua Tallent says that the way to get waypoints into a Kindle ebook (using MobiPocket Creator and then uploading to Amazon's DTP) is to add a toc.ncx. This may be why Hadrian suggested converting an ePub (which has a toc.ncx) to MOBI using mobigen.
This does not tell us what gets added to the resulting MOBI for the K2 to use. When I try exploding Joshua's AZW file (which is DRM-free) using mobi2html (MobiPerl) or mobi2oeb (Calibre) I don't see anything obvious. I get a toc.ncx from mobi2oeb, but that is normal. |
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04-05-2009, 06:12 PM | #22 |
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Like I said earlier, these types of AZW files have an extra record (numbered 116 in my sample) that I believe contains this information. It seems to have a relatively simple format, so should be easy to reverse engineer
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Could someone try the following file ?
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04-07-2009, 09:56 AM | #24 |
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No answer on this thread, but it seems to work fine according to other sources.
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04-07-2009, 11:17 AM | #25 |
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Yeah, that works. Very slick. Had noticed those marks in the progress track a book that I'd purchased from Amazon and wondered what they meant. A very handy way of moving around the book. Is it anything regular formatters of e-books can incorporate when we produce books?
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I assume it's made using mobigen from an appropriate OPF?
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04-07-2009, 11:59 AM | #28 |
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Joshua points out that the toc.ncx can't have nested items, or at least that nested items won't generate waypoints. So he generates a standard MOBI TOC and a potentially simplified toc.ncx. See post 7 of Section Skipping / Chapter Skipping on Kindle / .MOBI.
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04-07-2009, 12:04 PM | #29 |
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Unfortunately we still don't know what is required in the MOBI file so at least as far as calibre is concerned, until someone finds the time to reverse engineer that, it's a no-no.
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1) Mobipocket could do a much better job and use the playOrder to get rid of their problem with nested elements 2) I'll generate the NCX with the same elements, but not nested. |
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