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pdurrant · 07-31-2008, 02:05 PM

I couldn't find any summary of the Mobipocket file format anywhere. Mobipocket don't document it, and although there's abviously been some reverse engineering to allow the MobiPerl tools and the various Python scripts, the code seems to be the documentation.

So - having spent some time with the various Perl and python scripts, and done a bit of googling on the PDB format, I've added some technical info to the wiki here, specifically to the PDB format page and the Mobipocket format page.

Hopefully others will contribute what they know, so we can build up a good description of the Mobipocket format, to help improve the tools.

Paul

07-31-2008, 02:05 PM	#1
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 71,510 Karma: 306214458 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Voyage	Mobipocket File Format I couldn't find any summary of the Mobipocket file format anywhere. Mobipocket don't document it, and although there's abviously been some reverse engineering to allow the MobiPerl tools and the various Python scripts, the code seems to be the documentation. So - having spent some time with the various Perl and python scripts, and done a bit of googling on the PDB format, I've added some technical info to the wiki here, specifically to the PDB format page and the Mobipocket format page. Hopefully others will contribute what they know, so we can build up a good description of the Mobipocket format, to help improve the tools. Paul