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Originally Posted by mrmikel
There is a difference between the conversion function of calibre and the calibre editor. The calibre editor can be started separately. It doesn't change any files imported into it, and you can just import the files directly.
You can edit them, create a table of contents and save them as azw3 or epub.
You can change fractions to unicode fractions.
If you already have calibre installed you can start the editor by itself with
Program Files\calibre2\ebook-edit in Windows.
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The Calibre editor will not edit mobi - it has to be converted first, and then the damage is done. That is why I originally was looking for something that could simply extract mobi files to html (or htmlz, with no renamed classes.) Note that I don't have any problem with ADDED classes, I have a problem with RENAMING classes that tell what something is, to 'calibrexx', especially when it is not needed within one ebook, because existing classes have meaning, and those classes could simply be used by Calibre instead of renaming them. If it left the original classes, etc, alone, there would be no problem, and I could use htmlz as I had planned to do. Calibre could also add id tags instead of renaming existing classes, which should still achieve the intended result.
I can handle epubs externally by renaming, unzipping, and rebuilding as I wish. Can't do that with mobi. I want a solution that works for any ebook, because I don't want to have different users of my tools to have to install different programs for different ebooks they work with. Calibre, in debug mode, DOES at least give me an almost standardized method. Upon rebuilding what I need from the input folder, I delete the entire debug folder, leaving only files of interest behind in a work folder.