My friend has a book that he wrote and self published (print) about 12 years ago. He has the pdf file which is accurate, but when I tried various methods (Calibre, on-line converters) to convert to mobi, some systemic problems appeared:
1) In the original pdf, at the top of each page is the name of the chapter. In the mobi, this name gets mixed into the text (instead of appearing at the top of the page). One solution (maybe) is just to delete the chapter name at the top of each page on the pdf.
2) In the original pdf, page number is in margin. In the mobi, this number gets mixed into the text. I suppose the page numbers could just be deleted in the pdf.
3) Pictures have captions. In the mobi, these captions seem to get mixed into the text.
I'm not sure what to do about this because the captions are important.
4) An Android ebook reader (not Kindle) showed the pictures out of order.
I would like that different brands of e-book readers display the pictures in the correct order.
The original pdf is here (51MB):
http://files.videohelp.com/u/61125/Buer.pdf
If someone could take a look at the pdf and give me some ideas how to correct these problems, please let me know.