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Old 06-29-2008, 01:45 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan View Post
Since I hadn't heard that before, I had to test it on Mobi Reader for PC (Doubting Jordan... that's me). Sure enough, Mobi Reader opened and automatically converted an ePub document, then sent it as a Mobi format to my PDA. And that is exactly as it should be, device-wide and format-wide, as far as I'm concerned.
No surprise. An ePub file is a zip archive, containing text in XHTML files, CSS, images, and metadata in an OPF file.

I extracted the "Dynamic Alice" sample epub book to a directory and pointed Mobi Creator at the OPF file. Sure enough, it slurped it up and spit out a PRC format copy of the book. There are a few quirks, in XHTML markup Mobi doesn't understand, but it's a good start.
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