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Originally Posted by DNSB
When for example, I try to open the Tor freebie of The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett by dropping it on Kindle Previewer, I get a Kindle Previewer does not support this file.... message (see attached image). Dropping a mobi file that does open (The Haunting of Tram Car 015 for instance), I get the We recommend using EPUB popup. Seeing as Amazon does not support epub on their ereaders or apps, I find it humourous that they recommend that format for creating/editing ebooks.
So to answer your question, both.
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That must be
either a Calibre, or even older, MBPC book. I don't have this problem at my shop, where we build MOBIs either a) from ePUBs that we've done, or b) by using zipped HTML folders, or c) some combo of that. I mean, I want to be clear, we're building our files effectively using Kindlegen or KP3.x.
The only time I've seen
anything like that is when I get customers coming to me to revise (much older) books and when I pop them open, I almost invariably see "Calibre" in the CSS.
I have also see kluged-from-MBPC-PRC files fail, too. I mean, originally were Word, then PRC and then reprocessed to earlier MOBI. Those seem to fail pretty soundly too.
What's inside? When you unpack that sucker, what's it say?
Hitch