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cafaxo · 10-01-2012, 08:26 AM

While writing a mobi file parser, I tried to implement the reverse engineered specifications of the mobi format from https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/MOBI, but I struggled to understand how to correctly parse the index defined by the INDX, IDXT and TAGX sections.

In order to solve this problem, I inspected a mobi file generated by kindlegen, which (unfortunately) only increased my confusion. The order of the sections defining only a single entry was something like "INDX - TAGX - IDXT - INDX - IDXT". (followed by the RESC section; may be irrelevant)

I would appreciate any explanations which would help me to understand the structures of these indices very much!

10-01-2012, 08:26 AM	#1
cafaxo Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: Amazon Kindle Touch 5G	Understanding the structure of an index inside a mobi file While writing a mobi file parser, I tried to implement the reverse engineered specifications of the mobi format from https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/MOBI, but I struggled to understand how to correctly parse the index defined by the INDX, IDXT and TAGX sections. In order to solve this problem, I inspected a mobi file generated by kindlegen, which (unfortunately) only increased my confusion. The order of the sections defining only a single entry was something like "INDX - TAGX - IDXT - INDX - IDXT". (followed by the RESC section; may be irrelevant) I would appreciate any explanations which would help me to understand the structures of these indices very much! Last edited by cafaxo; 10-01-2012 at 08:40 AM.