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jimad · 03-31-2009, 03:12 PM

I haven't found many MOBI books at Project Gutenberg, vs "almost all" books there now have an EPUB version. I like the EPUBs -- but I agree that if one is willing to do the work a "hand made" conversion of a PG book to mobi is going to work better. Still, for "coverage" and for one-off reading of PG texts I think EPUB to MOBI via the Calibre command line tool "any2mobi" is a pretty good choice. It does seem to automagically guess the wrong code page frequently though -- does anyone know the parameters to the any2mobi --encoding option?

03-31-2009, 03:12 PM	#74
jimad Connoisseur Posts: 53 Karma: 52 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Kindle	I haven't found many MOBI books at Project Gutenberg, vs "almost all" books there now have an EPUB version. I like the EPUBs -- but I agree that if one is willing to do the work a "hand made" conversion of a PG book to mobi is going to work better. Still, for "coverage" and for one-off reading of PG texts I think EPUB to MOBI via the Calibre command line tool "any2mobi" is a pretty good choice. It does seem to automagically guess the wrong code page frequently though -- does anyone know the parameters to the any2mobi --encoding option?