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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
What tools are you using to fix things? When I get a Mobi needing a few fixes I usually convert it to ePub and fix things up in Sigil and re-convert, but I'm curious to other workflows.
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I use MobiUnpack to extract the actual HTML & other stuff (or at least a reasonably close approximation) from the Mobi file. I find that using a 3rd-party converter tends to add in cruft which I'm just going to edit out later.
TextWrangler (a freeware Mac text editor) to fix typos and modify formatting (I tend to do that by hand, as I like to have my source laid out a certain way if I'm going to spend time on it) and make tweaks to the OPF and NCX files if necessary.
Then I run everything back through KindleGen, and use kindlestrip to take out the auto-included source files (and if I weren't using an older version of KindleGen, would need MobiUnpack to split the Mobi version from the KF8 to save space), and then a look in the Kindle Previewer and off to Mobi2Mobi to adjust the metadata, and I'm done.
(Needless to say, unpacked and edited source files kept around in case there turn out to be other changes which need to be made later.)
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
It looks like they anticipate that there will be errors in these and that they have plans in place to fix them...
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Oh, good. I like to see a publisher who's aware of problems and openly willing to fix.
This bumps up the likelihood that I'll pick up more stuff from them during this sale, just to encourage bargain pricing and series continuations when they get around to doing sci-fi/fantasy pulps like they plan.