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Originally Posted by Hitch
(Really: if Calibre now has two "types" of files called MOBI, and an AZW3 file, you C guys need to come up with different names. No offense, but that's daft. yes, I know that Amazon calls both a KF7 and a KF8-built file "mobi," but really--do you need to ADD to the confusion? At least during running KG, Amazon calls the KF7 "PRC." How do any of you have any idea what TYPE of "mobi" you built, if you can get a faux-Kindlegen-MOBI (dual) or a KF7 "mobi" (f/k/a PRC), with the same damn file extension? Wouldn't it make more sense to call the PRC, PRC, which can be renamed to MOBI, or something like that?)
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Maybe.
But calibre is only following Amazon's lead -- Amazon called it a .mobi file, first -- for all that they emit "prc" in the log.
I'll bet you the
real reason it says PRC in the log is not because Amazon was trying to be less confusing, but simply because no one ever thought to update the string since the days when they were creating actual .prc files for PalmOS.
Sense be darned.
calibre's logs will (should) tell you that a dual-MOBI ("PRC" if it makes you happy) was created,
which would be just as helpful to the average user as kindlegen's logs.
Generally you know which one you are making, because you have to specifically dive into the guts of calibre's configuration in order to get a dual-MOBI. At that point, I start expecting people to know what they are doing (which may be unrealistic of me
).