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Originally Posted by erayd
What I'm looking for is technical information on the mobi format itself.
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is no official technical documentation for the mobi format. It's a proprietary format owned by Amazon—so any knowledge gleaned about the internal structure of the format has been from the result reverse engineering efforts. If the
wiki here on MobileRead doesn't contain the information you're looking for, then you're probably not going to find it
anywhere.
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Thanks for that. Unfortunately, it's not what I'm after - your link seems to contain instructions on using other software tools to create mobi files.
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Just so you know... the creation of a mobi file REQUIRES "other software tools." They can't really be made from scratch. MOBIs are binary files that must be compiled from source material, so it's not like an epub where you can build it with whatever text-editing tools you already use on your computer. Unless you write your own mobi creation software, you're stuck with kindlegen, Mobipocket Creator, or calibre (plus a few other plugins for other software).