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Old 09-10-2008, 01:08 AM   #575
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Hey guys - I'm back with something I don't understand. It's kinda related to mobi2mobi, but also kinda related to mobi reader. And maybe just M$ Windows being a pain.

I have an AZW file. I dedrm'd it fine. I can open it in MobiReader on my PC and it works fine. But, the author is displayed as "LastName, FirstName," --- it's that little comma after the firstname that I want to get rid of.

Here's the command as I ran it (marked and pasted from command window):
F:\ebooks\Working>mobi2mobi.exe "title.mobi" --outfile fixcomma.mob
i --author "Heath, Lorraine"

Then I right clicked on the file and chose "Open With" > Reader. MobiReader opened and opened the file. I clicked back to my ebook library page and the comma still showed after the firstname. I deleted the mbp file and relaunched with no change.

So then, I deleted the mobi and mpb file and closed reader. Then instead of doing "Open With", I copied the file into the library myself and then launched reader.

Guess what? No comma.

Anyone have ANY idea why that would make a difference? I mean, I have no problem manually copying the file in instead of using "open with" but why would that make a difference?

Ignore this...figured it out...number of characters including the spaces and commas...duh.
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To make this more relevant to mobi2mobi, what do the 15 vs. 16 in the results below signify? Just curious.

When I run mobi2mobi with no arguments except the infile, this is the author info it shows:
EXTH item: 100 - Author - 16 - Heath, Lorraine,

When I did the same against the fixcomma file, it shows:
EXTH item: 100 - Author - 15 - Heath, Lorraine

Last edited by texasnightowl; 09-10-2008 at 01:43 AM.
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