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Originally Posted by terencek
There's also a quick and dirty way which even novices can use, though the results are variable:
* Use Calibre to convert the file to .RTF
* Edit the file in Microsoft Word just like any normal Word document. Find and replace are perfect and quick for fixing repeated errors (even changing straight to smart quotes, which is more pleasant to read)
* Save to .RTF again in Word, then convert back to .MOBI with Calibre. Voila!
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It easier to just unpack the mobi using the Calibre plugin then open the HTML up in Word, edit and saved. This is what I do. There's no need to reconvert the file to RTF which Calibre does a poor job of and you can lose formatting.
Once you finish editing the html just drag into Calibre and convert back to mobi. This way you get as close to original formatting as possible.
You can easily change quotes with Calibre by checking the Smarten Punctuation box and skip that step in Word. It's not necessary. Just be sure to have Smart Tags turned off when editing in Word or it will change addressed to italics and other annoying issues.
I mainly use Word to mark chapters and fix broken sentences, formatting and OCR errors.
Before the plugin you could convert the mobi to htmlz which is just a zip file you open and find a html file for editing with. It will work but all code will be Calibre's coding with the mobi unpack plugin you are using the original code which makes it easier to edit and find the tags if needing to be edited.
Just make sure to leave the html file with the opf and ncx file so when you re import you get all the features and navigation of the original mobi unless you want Calibre to recreate them.
With the plugin once you unpack, you will get a folder called Mobi7 and inside will be the html, opf, ncx files and a image folder. Just edit the html file and then drag into the Calibre and it should take everything in the folder and put it in a zip file that you can convert back to mobi and you should be good to go. If you need to be rebuild the TOC be sure to check the
Force use of auto-generated table of contents box in Calibre and put the appropriate Xpath expression in the boxes below it.