EDIT: I've now written a little dos command line utility in Perl called impmeta available here.
In our wiki pages, you will find
IMP software, which lists
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Imp Librarian - windows - to catalog a collection of .IMP files and produce .csv files for import into MS Excel or equiv.
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With it you can edit selected .IMPs (I found some files edited by Imp Librarian that could not be edited properly afterwards with GEBLibrarian -
use with extreme caution & use on backups until you're sure this works for you!)
Also, I've been meaning to write an
impedit utility for some time now (
EDIT: see above), but have been
distracted writing plugins for some program here
). It would be written in perl and have a similiar GUI interface to Mobi2IMP/PDFRead. (btw, that GUI was the brain child of ashkulz; I just copied it!)
In essence, the .imp ebook has fields after the first 48 bytes that are null byte terminated (dot represents that 0 byte):
Code:
ID . Category . Subcategory . Title . LAuthorname . MAuthorname . FAuthorname .
The only problem editing these directly with a hex/binary editor is that if the length changes for any field, the size of this header record in the imp file must be recalculated along with the offset to the .RES TOC entries. Not hard, but will take some time to code and perfect. I'll look at this soon, if ashkulz doesn't beat me to the punch.
For more information, see
IMP and the detailed reverse-engineering work done by Jeffrey Kraus-yao in 2002
here.
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