[torben]

Hello there,

I am using an iLiad 2nd Edition here for mobile book reading. A few days ago I stumbled over Calibre and must say that I am very impressed about the application.

After running a few tests i came to the conclusion, that reading feeds using FBReader and ePub on the iLiad isn't ideal, mainly due to FBReaders average ePub support. Images are missing, and the general rendering of the output is average as well, both with the 0.8 version on the iLiad and the current 0.10 on the PC.

So I did some experiments using the closed mobigen tools, which can convert ePub into PRC. Generally it works like a breeze, however there is a stumbling block. Mobigen expects the dc:Language tag to be present in the file (it seems to be mandatory), which is missing in the ePub. It is not really a problem to fix, the epub-meta tool can add it with ease.

My wish now would be some way to automate the Mobipocket conversion, as I want to have an automatic way of feeding my news to the iLiad.

Is it possible, to automatically run tasks after the creation of the feed, some kind of custom post-processing using a custom recipe? With that way I could automatically add the language tag and maybe even convert it to mobipocket and copy the file in question into the right folder.

As a logical extent to that the next question: How hard is it to add Mobipocket as an additional output format at least supported in the Windows World using the mobigen tool? I have quite some programming experience, if it is a task not too time consuming to do I would even consider trying to put a few patches together.

Thanks in advance for any pointers in this matter.


Greetings,
Torben Nehmer