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JPD · 09-26-2010, 12:16 PM

duh, I was saving the html file to my computer, and using that file to convert to mobi, but of course all the paths to the images now pointed to where the file was on my computer, while the actual images were on the web site's server.

So I spent the night crawling through the website, going to 'page info/media' for every page, selecting every img, and saving the 2,000 collected .gifs to the same folder the html files were in. Now Calibre gave me a complete mobi with all the images, with one flaw - it plops one of the images at the top of every page. But I was more concerned with not having to repeat what I'd just done for every site, so after much searching found a wonderful FF web-scraper plug-in, iMacros ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863/ ), that will save all the web files, html and imgs. This is an enormous time saver, but I still get the unwanted image at the top of every converted mobi. Any ideas, short of learning to use Sigil and editing them as ePubs (which ain't gonna happen)?

Here's an example of one of the web pages I'm trying to convert:
http://www.chemguide.co.uk/analysis/...ation.html#top

In any zip file I convert to mobi in Calibre, there will be an image at position 1.0 of the eBook.

09-26-2010, 12:16 PM	#6
JPD Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Kindle	almost with iMacros, but unwanted image on top of converted eBook page duh, I was saving the html file to my computer, and using that file to convert to mobi, but of course all the paths to the images now pointed to where the file was on my computer, while the actual images were on the web site's server. So I spent the night crawling through the website, going to 'page info/media' for every page, selecting every img, and saving the 2,000 collected .gifs to the same folder the html files were in. Now Calibre gave me a complete mobi with all the images, with one flaw - it plops one of the images at the top of every page. But I was more concerned with not having to repeat what I'd just done for every site, so after much searching found a wonderful FF web-scraper plug-in, iMacros ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863/ ), that will save all the web files, html and imgs. This is an enormous time saver, but I still get the unwanted image at the top of every converted mobi. Any ideas, short of learning to use Sigil and editing them as ePubs (which ain't gonna happen)? Here's an example of one of the web pages I'm trying to convert: http://www.chemguide.co.uk/analysis/...ation.html#top In any zip file I convert to mobi in Calibre, there will be an image at position 1.0 of the eBook.