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Old 12-30-2007, 08:25 PM   #75
Jiiri
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Just thought I'd pass this along for whatever it's worth - I've been playing with your (wonderful) mobiperl tools all day, getting my books to look right in the Kindle Home page. I had bought Bertrand Russell's "History of Western Philosophy" in Amazon's proprietary .azw format, and I guess whenever the publisher's did the conversion, they typed in 'Bertrand Russell' under author instead of 'Russell, Bertrand'.

The result of this was when I sorted by author, every author showed up correctly by last name except Russell, who showed up under 'B' for Bertrand instead of under 'R' for Russell. I'm anal, and it annoyed me greatly. At any rate, I took the .azw file off of my Kindle, changed the extension to .prc, and ran mobi2mobi to change the metadata. After the file spit out, I changed it back to .azw, and sure enough, it worked like a charm.

So, if anyone else has metadata they don't like in a protected .azw file, it works.

Enjoy, and thanks tompe!

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