Quote:
Originally Posted by drjd
I actually don't play much with conversion features. I prefer to keep the books in their original format, but Kobos don't support a dictionary support on mobi formats, hence the need. Although the Calibre has converted my files to epub in fairly nice way, just a little tweaking on chapter headings here and there is needed, which I'll do in due course.  |
I prefer ePub as a storage format. My experience is that it converts readily to other formats, as all the needed metadata to do the conversion is present.
I actually got Calibre in the first place for conversion. I still have a working Palm TX. It has a Mobi viewer (and Palm OS was the first target of MobiPocket - the Mobi format shows vestiges of that, like a 64K record size.) It doesn't have an ePub viewer, as Palm was gone before ePub appeared. But I could convert ePub to Mobi for reading on teh TX, and did so.
Quote:
I've never tried my hands on Sigil or Kindleimporter before. But thanks for the suggestion, I'll try'em soon. In fact I am left with a shy appetite on learning new software nowadays.  I need to gather more courage soon. 
|
Sigil was originally a master's thesis in software engineering for the developer who wrote it. Google hired him, so his time to work on Sigil dropped. But it's open source and other folks have been contributing since.
Sigil has all sorts of stuff I haven't used. As mentioned, my principal use is adding working ToCs to volumes that lack them. That's actually fairly straight forward.
______
Dennis