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Two part post:
My interest is in making a college level energy engineering textbook that is a bit more interesting to 18-21 yr olds. We have identified iBook Author for the iPad and wish to use KF8 on Fire (and the promised PC/eInk Kindle devices) to be a 2nd best. Thus the ability to do multiple fonts and treatments, boxes, colors, embedded media are all of interest to me.
I'm happy to see that our honored sponsor has taken up the challenge of slowly expanding Calibre's functionality to include KF8. To that end I am experimenting with the format. Kovid, if you rather I post my observations (are these bugs or features or a slow user) somewhere else, I will post where you direct.
My immediate issue:
I added the code as directed:
test_mobi_output_type = 'both'
And did a conversion (MOBI->MOBI) on a book that started life as a OpenDoc that used a plug in to make a MOBI format. The book existed on the Fire as a KF7 previously. I converted again and noted a MOBI_ORIGINAL and a MOBI output.
1. I d/l the MOBI output to the Fire and didn't really see much difference with the text box with the outline and shading, but the text wrap did look better.
2. I noted that pasting the tweak is only good for that session. Other tweaks seem to persist (and the screen talks about exiting and re-opening Calibre to make the tweaks work) but the tweak above - it doesn't appear to persist. In fact, I don't really understand how that screen works (will read manual).
and a suggestion
Would respectfully suggest that MOBI be MOBI 8 or something else as you are creating a NEW format so it's really confusing when we have a bunch of MOBI that are old and then you get a MOBI ORIGINAL added to the mix.
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