Mobipocket output

[bpwhistler]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

open a ticket and attach the log and the chm file and it will get looked at eventually

Thanks...Where do I create a ticket?

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by bpwhistler

Thanks...Where do I create a ticket?

Try here to start.

[bpwhistler]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

Try here to start.

Thanks...

[noideaatall]

Yep compression would be awesome!

Originally Posted by DDHarriman

Yes it does, and it's great already!

Problems:

1 - image of the eBook cover, shows in the Cybook, does not show in Mobipocket Reader for the Desktop and for the PokectPC;

2 - it would be great if existed and option to compress the mobi file - mobipocket creator has 3 levels and if the 3th (high compression) takes a lot of time and it’s good just for compressing dictionaries, the 2th (standard compression) is acceptable and cuts the size of the eBook in half at least.

I understand that using any2mobi in command line one can do the compression I ask in (2), so I think is a question of time.

Let me say, it’s now outstanding stable and creates great files.

Thank you for the hard work put into this,

[AnemicOak]

Wondering if anyone else has run across this issue or has a suggestion on a setting I need to be adjusting or something...


I'm still using 0.6.51 on my work computer and that's usually where I convert my ePub's to Mobi. Everything works great and I get nice Mobi files for my Kindle. Yesterday I bought some books and tried converting them at home (using 0.7.12) and the results were not as pleasant.

The first problem I'm having is that the paragraph indents go half way across the page. I can kinda fix this by checking the 'remove space between paragraphs' box (even though there are no spaces). This put's the indents in a more normal position.

The second problem is that the chapter heading (chapter 1, chapter 2, etc.) ends up on it's own separate page instead of just a few lines above the start of the chapter.


I just tried doing the same conversion with 0.6.51 and the Mobi files came out just how I've come to expect Calibre conversions to come out. Obviously something's different in the newer version, but I'm not sure what.

FWIW I ended up using Mobi Desktop to convert the ePubs at home and they came out just as good as the older version of Calibre, although I'm unsure if on the Kindle they'll have the chapter marks which the Calibre conversions give and which I like very much.


Anyone have any ideas?

[kovidgoyal]

Hard to say without looking at one of the Mobi files. Open a ticket and attach the mobi file.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Hard to say without looking at one of the Mobi files. Open a ticket and attach the mobi file.

Why not also attach the original file used to make the mobi file?

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why not also attach the original file used to make the mobi file?

Yes, I actually meant to say attach the original file.

[Whistler36]

I am trying to fix some metadata in a book. I did a mobi to mobi conversion and the book is very slow opening and moving around in. There were some messages in the conversion log. Are these a problem? How are they fixed?

*** TOC discontinuity: nodes are not sequential ***
node 000: 'E-book Extra:' offset: 0x2B8880 length: 0x50E6B
node 001: 'Also by' offset: 0x125A != 0x3096EB
...
child 000: TOC: E-book Extra: --> file.html#filepos2595443
child 001: TOC: Also by --> file.html#filepos4617
<snip>
...
_generate_indexed_navpoints: Failed to generate index
Writing unindexed mobi ...

I tried converting to epub and epub was slow also.

[kovidgoyal]

Those messages mean calibre was unable to generate the extra data used to jump around in a mobi file from one chapter to the next. It shouldnt cause slowness.

[Whistler36]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Those messages mean calibre was unable to generate the extra data used to jump around in a mobi file from one chapter to the next. It shouldnt cause slowness.

Ok. Well how do I fix the file so it can generate that data?

[kovidgoyal]

There's no easy way to do it.

[cheveguerra]

Hi everybody,

I am starting to use Calibre and think it is really good.

I have some books that are part of a series and and when I convert them and send them to the device I would like to "add" something descriptive to the title so when I open the library in mobipocket instead of seeing a lot of unrelated titles I see something like:

DP01 - Dragonflight
DP02 - Dragonquest
DP03 - Dragonsong

Instead of just:

Dragonflight
Dragonquest
Dragonsong

Besides if you have other titles (as I do) that when ordered get between the books of this series then you HAVE to know the order so you wont end up reading them out of order.

I can change the title in a book-by-book basis, but if the series has 22 or more books it can be a little slow and time consuming.

So, is there an easier way to do it?

Regards

[Tuffgong4]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Wondering if anyone else has run across this issue or has a suggestion on a setting I need to be adjusting or something...


I'm still using 0.6.51 on my work computer and that's usually where I convert my ePub's to Mobi. Everything works great and I get nice Mobi files for my Kindle. Yesterday I bought some books and tried converting them at home (using 0.7.12) and the results were not as pleasant.

The first problem I'm having is that the paragraph indents go half way across the page. I can kinda fix this by checking the 'remove space between paragraphs' box (even though there are no spaces). This put's the indents in a more normal position.

The second problem is that the chapter heading (chapter 1, chapter 2, etc.) ends up on it's own separate page instead of just a few lines above the start of the chapter.


I just tried doing the same conversion with 0.6.51 and the Mobi files came out just how I've come to expect Calibre conversions to come out. Obviously something's different in the newer version, but I'm not sure what.

FWIW I ended up using Mobi Desktop to convert the ePubs at home and they came out just as good as the older version of Calibre, although I'm unsure if on the Kindle they'll have the chapter marks which the Calibre conversions give and which I like very much.


Anyone have any ideas?

Interesting. I went back and downloaded 0.6.51 because all of my epubs converted in Calibre have that far indent...what is this mobi desktop app you speak of? I can't ind it through google.

[DallasW]

Hey there, first thanks for the great software, very easy to use and learn! I seem to be having one small issue however when converting files for use with my Kindle 3, using version 7.19

For the most part I haven't had any issues converting files, approximately 5 or 6 other books which I've converted from various formats (html, epub, lit) have worked fine. For two books however, I have had issues after conversion where the reader indents every line to about 1/6 of the way across the screen. It doesn't seem to be a line break issue as changing the text size scaled everything properly, it just is all indented, and thus losing screen space.

I haven't changed any values in the preferences away from default so I'm not really sure what the problem is. One of the books is in ePUB format, the other was an html format. This indentation problem seems to be present in the ebook reader within caliber as well, as seen in the screenshow below.

Any help is appreciated. I tried searching but had no luck, so sorry if this has been covered before.

Original ePUB in reader:


Converted mobi file in reader: