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DiapDealer · 04-05-2012, 08:07 AM

CSS doesn't work at all in the MOBI format (pre-KF8). All CSS gets converted to HTML 3.2 attributes (if possible) when the MOBI gets built.

You say you've "deconstructed" some Kindle books, but I'm seeing calibre CSS, so I suspect you've either converted it to ePub or HTML (or you've captured the intermediate OEBPS step of a conversion using calibre's debug feature). That's not deconstruction per se... that's conversion. You'd need to use something like mobi_unpack.py to view the raw mobi markup code that's actually being implemented inside a MOBI file. There's also a calibre plugin version of the mobi_unpack.py script that may be of use to you.

The KF8 format can achieve pretty much anything that can be done with the ePub format.

04-05-2012, 08:07 AM	#4
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,840 Karma: 207000000 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	CSS doesn't work at all in the MOBI format (pre-KF8). All CSS gets converted to HTML 3.2 attributes (if possible) when the MOBI gets built. You say you've "deconstructed" some Kindle books, but I'm seeing calibre CSS, so I suspect you've either converted it to ePub or HTML (or you've captured the intermediate OEBPS step of a conversion using calibre's debug feature). That's not deconstruction per se... that's conversion. You'd need to use something like mobi_unpack.py to view the raw mobi markup code that's actually being implemented inside a MOBI file. There's also a calibre plugin version of the mobi_unpack.py script that may be of use to you. The KF8 format can achieve pretty much anything that can be done with the ePub format. Last edited by DiapDealer; 04-05-2012 at 08:11 AM.