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Multiple HTML files w/ TOC to MOBI, not added in order listed in TOC

I'm trying to convert multiple HTML files to MOBI. I have a Table of Contents that lists the files in the correct order, that looks like this:

<html>
<body>
<h1>Table of Contents</h1>
<p style="text-indent:0pt">
<a href="file1.01.html">Chapter 1.01</a><br>
<a href="file1.02.html">Chapter 1.02</a><br>
...
<a href="file11.01.html">Chapter 11.01</a><br>
...
</p>
</body>
</html>

However after opening the TOC file in Calibre, converting to MOBI, and opening the converted book, I can see the TOC looking correct, but the linked files are not added in that order; for example here the contents of file11.01 are first in the book. I've tried setting the breadth-first search option to no avail, and don't have any other ideas.

You need to set the breadth first option *before* importing the html index file into calibre.

Yes, I did that. Nevermind anyway, I just went and rewrote the script to download these files to write everything into one html file. Thanks.

If you a re using ebook-convert, as opposed to importing the html into calibre, you need to use the --breadth-first option as the plugin customization has no effect on that.