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Old 12-01-2007, 01:52 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
Curiously enough, most of my ebooks do not show an author. This includes all my Baen ebooks.
The same thing happens with Windows MobiPocket Reader.

Baen .prc files are Palm/MobiPocket e-books - in other words PalmDoc e-books with images. These have TEXtREAd in bytes 61-68 of the file, and don't have an author listed by MobiPocket/Kindle. Books with BOOKMOBI in bytes 61-68 of the file do have an author, they might come with filename extension .prc or .mobi but the important part seems to be BOOKMOBI. I'm sure there are finer distinctions between MobiPocket files than I am making here, but I think this may be what Amazon and MobiPocket means when they say PRC vs MOBI.

There is a similar issue on the iLiad, with PRC and MOBI books showing up differently in its content lister.

Note that you can use ConvertLIT and mobigen.exe to make a MOBI version of Baen books from their LIT download. Use mobigen.exe -jpeg and it will also have larger images than the PRC version. This is why multi-format e-books are so nice - if one format fails just switch to another.
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