08-06-2009, 03:59 AM | #1 |
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Where does the Cybook take its book title from?
I make PRC books for my Cybook with Bookdesigner just to make HTML or txt readable. I don't do much formatting as I'm quite tolerant of what I read.
However, when I put the books on my Cybook I'm often surprised by the Title it uses. I'd expected it to be the name of the file, but that's clearly too easy and all kinds of strange stuff has appeared as the title in the Cybook library pages. Can somebody pse tell me how to make sure the Cybook shows the title I want it to when I give it a Bookdesigner prc file? |
08-06-2009, 10:15 AM | #2 | |
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I' m not sure about BookDesigner, I' ve almost never used it. I can only tell you that you have to look for a metadata called Book Title or something like that. Otherwise, the best that could happen is at best your file name. The easy way is to use Mobipocket Creator, and then look at the options. It is very straightforward.
It accepts HTML and is very straightforward. Quote:
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The most easy way is to use Mobi Creator. There you can fill in the name of the book. The filename has nothing to do with the title. If you have books with wrong names you can use mobi2mobi to correct it
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Thanks Derek, I'll do that. Don't really want to change to mobipocket creator if I don't have to.
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Thanks Ortep for the mobi2mobi suggestion.
I was actually also trying to edit the metadata of some books I got on ebooksgratuit.com, because for some reason most of them don't include the author in the metadata (and a folder with different children's tales books all entitled 'Tales', with no author showin, is not fun). I was trying to use calibre to do it but it wasn't workin, mobi2mobi is far simpler for this use! |
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Don't use Book Designer to create Mobi books - it creates a VERY old version of the format which doesn't properly support metadata as it should do.
See my tutprial here for detailed instructions on how to take what you've done with BD, and create a "real" Mobipocket book from it. It takes literally 5 minutes to do, and is well worthwhile. |
08-09-2009, 10:34 AM | #8 |
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thanks harry but I dont need a working table of contents.
I just start a book at the beginning and read it to the end, ignoring any typos or whatever, then I bin it. So I've just used mobi2mobi command line version to sort out my titles and authors as recommended by ortep (thanks) and that'll do me. and a big thanks to the author of mobi2mobi too |
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08-09-2009, 12:43 PM | #10 |
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yes I do thanks, but I couldnt' find out how to use it - the wiki pages had been deleted at the request of amazon and (being of little brain) I got confused and packed it in and used the command line instead rather than ask and upset harry again. I may be wrong but there doesn't seem to be a simple guide to using the GUI - all I saw was install this install that install the other which baffled me and 50 odd pages of posts to read through.
Anyway, Command line works fine for me so I'm sorted. I'd rather spend my time reading books than formatting them. |
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The only thing you need is a completely updated windows so that the .Net software is available https://www.mobileread.com/forums/att...9&d=1245977436 But if the command line is working for you it is OK |
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08-10-2009, 05:43 AM | #13 | |
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Anyway, thanks again to ortep, all I needed to know it seems is to put the GUI exe and the mobi2mobi exe in the same directory, google ".net" and download and install the latest version of that. Then run the GUI exe and it goes. I'm sure that info is there in the forum many times, but I didn't manage to pick it out. |
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