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Old 10-14-2008, 03:47 PM   #2
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Unfortunately MobiPocket Creator can't import MOBI files. The command mobi2mobi (part of MobiPerl) can add an author to an existing MOBI file. Note that there are Windows binaries and a Windows GUI for MobiPerl.

If the MOBI files are from sources with multiple formats, then I suggest downloading the LIT (MS Reader) version. This can be exploded to an OEB ebook (HTML, images and a .opf metadata file) using Convert LIT (I recommend the GUI version, google for ConvertLIT GUI) and then converted to MOBI using Windows MobiPocket Creator (just import the .opf file). Most likely the author will be correct, but if not Creator allows you to change it. Often the LIT version has larger images (better for the Kindle) than the MOBI version.

MobiPocket Creator can handle multi-file HTML, but if there isn't an existing .opf file you have to drag and drop the HTML files into Creator in the correct order. I'm really not sure what the best approach is today but when MobiPocket gets it act together for ePub import the best option will probably be Calibre's any2epub because it has very flexible multi-file html support (at present MobiPocket Reader/Creator does not import an ePub TOC correctly, which negates Calibre's advantages).
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