Thread: Kindle Fire periodicals need EXTH[501]=NWPR
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Old 11-20-2011, 12:34 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Committed code to set 501 for periodicals.
There's still a problem with the fix. Calibre-generated periodicals all have the MOBI type set to 0x103 which results in EXTH[501]=MAGZ instead of NWPR. This causes the Fire to display the periodical TOC as a linear list of articles without a drop-down menu to jump to a specific section. I suspect the MAGZ classification is intended for periodicals that have only one section. For multi-section periodicals we really need EXTH[501]=NWPR.

I looked at the code and I see
Code:
        if oeb.metadata.publication_type:
            x = unicode(oeb.metadata.publication_type[0]).split(':')
            if len(x) > 1:
                pt = x[1].lower()
        self.publication_type = pt
and then the MOBI type is set as
Code:
{'newspaper':0x101}.get(self.publication_type, 0x103)
so obviously the oeb.metadata.publication_type isn't being set to 'newspaper' since the type always ends up as 0x103.

I don't see any preferences that would affect oeb.metadata.publication_type, so I suspect there needs to be a change to ensure multi-section periodicals get the type 0x101, or make all periodicals (0x101 and 0x103) have EXTH[501]=NWPR.
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