View Single Post
Old 04-13-2010, 09:08 PM   #4
Nate the great
Sir Penguin of Edinburgh
Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Nate the great's Avatar
 
Posts: 12,375
Karma: 23555235
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: DC Metro area
Device: Shake a stick plus 1
Quote:
Originally Posted by Robotech_Master View Post
I'm trying to convert over all the e-books from the Baen CDs that were made before Baen used EPUB so I can add them to iTunes. I've tried copying just the Mobi files to a single directory and adding all those to the library at once, and I've tried the "add books from directories assuming each book file in the directory is a different version of the same book" option, but in both cases the problem is it seems to choke on some of the books.

What's more, I don't know how to select just the books I've added for conversion to EPUB after I add them. There doesn't seem to be a "sort by date added" option in the library. It would be nice if I could somehow create a new library to use just for the conversion, then merge it afterward, but I don't see anything in the settings dialogue to suggest that's even possible.

Can anyone help out?
I did something similar last fall, only I worked from MSReader (larger images). I can tell you how to do it in Windows.

If you have the actual CDs, navigate to the base folder of the CD.
Open a search window, and search in that folder and its subfolders for *.mobi.
Once all the files have been found, drag and drop into the calibre GUI.
Sort by date, and then select a bunch at a time.

BTW, I converted 3 or 4 hundred at a time. Calibre handled it quite well.
Nate the great is offline   Reply With Quote