Thread: Reality check
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Old 03-04-2008, 10:16 AM   #36
wmaurer
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
I do not really care about a Mobipocket created version but I would really like to see the specification. But I suspect that the specification is their implementation in some respect so they will probably never release a specification.

Reverse engineering as its problem but in this case a lot of information is available so I do not think there are any significant bugs left concerning the format. A new reader implementation mighy change that.
Your work has been greatly appreciated, and I'm now extremely happy that I can convert mobi files to a non-terminal format (I'm safeguarding my ebooks in anticipation of a radicial evolution of formats). Would you, along with others who have spent so much time reverse engineering, be willing to document the format? If not, I wonder if you'd mind me assisting by reverse engeering your tools in order to produce such documentation? Would this documentation be suitable content for the MobileRead wiki?

-Wayne
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