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Old 11-15-2008, 06:04 AM   #164
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Originally Posted by adinb View Post
It looks like mobitohtml is stable/robust enough to use as a validity checker in situations where the official mobipocket reader is unavailable. (which is my lesson learned out of this). The only downside to using mobitohtml (IMHO) is that you lose a lot of the metadata tags.
Calibre's mobi2oeb is a better choice—you don't lose the meta tags and it works with huffdic compression too.

Btw, I have Mobipocket Reader running on Linux with Wine. You could try if it works for you with the latest version of Wine for Mac OSX.
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