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Originally Posted by jinlo
You're not being picky. If it's a problem, then I need to try a fix it.
May I ask a couple of questions so I know where to direct my attention?
I've never used mobi2mobi, so please excuse any questions that may not make sense.
Was it the .mobi format, the .prc format, or both formats that caused the error?
Was it the first Delver Magic book Sanctum's Breach that had the formatting problems, or all three?
For information's sake, this is how I performed the formatting.
The books were written in MS Word.
I used the Mobipocket Creator Home edition to create the .prc file format directly from the MS Word doc file.
I used the Read in MS Reader command within Word to turn the Word doc into a .lit file.
I then used calibre on the .lit file to convert it into a .mobi file.
If this is not the best process to use for creating formats, I would appreciate any assistance anyone has to offer. Thank you.
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Thanks, Jinlo.
Mobi2mobi.py is a python script with which one can change the metadata in mobipocket files. I normally put new ebook downloads into the My ebooks folder, and look at them with the mobipocket desktop reader. I could see some things I'd like to change.
More information about mobi2mobi can be found in the ebook format>mobi section of the forum.
To answer your questions in turn:
- It's the mobi versions I have; I don't remember seeing prc versions, though I may have missed them.
- The problem occurs with all three of the Delver Magic series, but not the Alien Cradle ebook. When I try to use the command line version of mobi2mobi on any of the Delver Magic books it returns the error message 'Bogus database name! Is this really a Palm OS file? at Palm.PDB line 537'
After reading your response I wonder if the problem might be with Calibre rather than your file - that is, in the translation from prc to ebup to mobi. But I'm certainly not an expert. I suppose the only way to find out is to run mobi2mobi on the original prc version.
I also wonder why you do this transfer. So far as I know prc files created by Mobipocket Creator are for all practically purposes equivalent to mobi files; they can certainly be read by the Mobipocket reader on my Cybook and by the reader on my desktop.
Hope this helps, Alex