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wallcraft · 08-01-2008, 09:38 AM

MobiPocket is planning to add CHM import to MobiPocket Creator, but it isn't there yet. It would probably fail just as the Reader did anyway.

I have not tried it, but there is a shareware program DoLit CHM2LIT. If it works, you can explode the LIT to OEB with ConvertLIT and import it into MobiPocket Creator (via the .opf file). The advantage of this approach is that you may be able to edit the HTML, or OPF metadata, manually if necessary. Note that MobiPocket's importer is almost certainly a CHM2OEB utility, i.e. the process is CHM -> OEB -> MOBI. It might be CHM -> HTML -> OEB -> MOBI, but I think that would probably loose information. The LIT format is just a thin wrapper around OEB, so CHM -> LIT -> OEB -> MOBI is optimal if the CHM2LIT step is good.

08-01-2008, 09:38 AM	#4
wallcraft reader Posts: 6,977 Karma: 5183568 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mississippi, USA Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD	MobiPocket is planning to add CHM import to MobiPocket Creator, but it isn't there yet. It would probably fail just as the Reader did anyway. I have not tried it, but there is a shareware program DoLit CHM2LIT. If it works, you can explode the LIT to OEB with ConvertLIT and import it into MobiPocket Creator (via the .opf file). The advantage of this approach is that you may be able to edit the HTML, or OPF metadata, manually if necessary. Note that MobiPocket's importer is almost certainly a CHM2OEB utility, i.e. the process is CHM -> OEB -> MOBI. It might be CHM -> HTML -> OEB -> MOBI, but I think that would probably loose information. The LIT format is just a thin wrapper around OEB, so CHM -> LIT -> OEB -> MOBI is optimal if the CHM2LIT step is good.