Mobi2Mobi Mobi2Mobi v0.13 - GUI for Mobiperl tools

[dskag]

Originally Posted by dskag

I ran mobi2mobi.exe from the command prompt. I get and whole string of facts that looks like the program worked (no error notices). But, where do I find the new changed .mobi file? Can't seem to locate it. Thanks.

Thanks, tompe. Got it to work.

[daffy4u]

Hi Jad,

I'm sure I missed a post about this but since mobi2mobi works on .azw (even DRM'd) files, can this GUI be revised to work with them? Right now it only recognizes .mobi and .prc files.

Thanks.

[Jad]

To address the requirement that daffy4u raised, the GUI has been updated to accept .azw as a valid source file extension to support Amazon Kindle files. This is a really simple mod so I won't be updating the GPL release of the source code.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by Jad

To address the requirement that daffy4u raised, the GUI has been updated to accept .azw as a valid source file extension to support Amazon Kindle files. This is a really simple mod so I won't be updating the GPL release of the source code.

Yay! Thank you!

[daffy4u]

I just tried it with XP and had very good success. The only things I noticed is that even though I tried to name each of the book titles with an XP in front, the XP was left off and the normal title came through. I've been able to make changes like that in Vista with the previous version.

Also, even those this books were downloaded from Amazon as DRM'd .azw files, they were renamed with the .mobi extension. All books opened just fine.

Here are some pics. I'm off to try Vista next.

[Jad]

Any fields that you modify within the GUI requires you to tick the modified tickbox. This flags those entries as requiring updating during the convert process. The GUI will always output files with a .mobi extension as technically this is what they now are.

Glad it all appears to be working for you.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by Jad

Any fields that you modify within the GUI requires you to tick the modified tickbox. This flags those entries as requiring updating during the convert process. The GUI will always output files with a .mobi extension as technically this is what they now are.

Glad it all appears to be working for you.

I did check the box but nothing happens in Vista either (see images 2 and 3).

[Jad]

Hmm. Looking at the 2 screenshots it looks like the ticked changes worked fine. The output filename you specified and the book title all look fine. After a convert the GUI opens the converted .mobi file to repopulate the fields to confirm your modifications were successful.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by Jad

Hmm. Looking at the 2 screenshots it looks like the ticked changes worked fine. The output filename you specified and the book title all look fine. After a convert the GUI opens the converted .mobi file to repopulate the fields to confirm your modifications were successful.

I don't know. I even tried changing the extension from .mobi to .azw with no luck.

I just tried taking the .mobi file from v.15 and running it through v.14 to see if the title would change and still no luck.

C:\Users\XXXX\Desktop\Downloads\Mobi2Mobi_GUI_v014 >"C:\Python26\Tools\Scripts\mobi2mobi.exe" "C:\Users\XXXX\Desktop\test\Vista2_My Vampire Cat or Whatever.mobi"
Database Name: My Vampire Cat, or Whatever
Version: 0
Type: BOOK
Creator: MOBI
Seed: 0
Resdb:
AppInfoDirty:
ctime: -1968466898 - Sun Jan 0 00:00:00 1900
mtime: -1968466898 - Sun Jan 0 00:00:00 1900
baktime: -2082844800 - Sun Jan 0 00:00:00 1900
---------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------
START IMAGE INDEX: 12
COVER IMAGE INDEX: 0
PDHEADER Version: 2
PDHEADER Length: 21434
PDHEADER NRecords: 11
PDHEADER Recsize: 2048
PDHEADER Unknown: 158266
MOBIHEADER ciflg: 65535
MOBIHEADER ciptr: 65535
MOBIHEADER doctype: MOBI
MOBIHEADER length: 208
MOBIHEADER booktype: 2 - BOOK
MOBIHEADER codep: 1252
MOBIHEADER uniqid: 3776101978
MOBIHEADER ver: 4
MOBIHEADER exthflg: 64
MOBIHEADER language: 9 - 9 - 0 - ENGLISH -
COVEROFFSET: -1
THUMBOFFSET: -1
EXTH doctype: EXTH
EXTH length: 184
EXTH n_items: 10
EXTH item: 1 - drm_server_id - 9 - EBOOKBASE
EXTH item: 2 - drm_commerce_id - 11 - AMAZON_1110
EXTH item: 3 - drm_ebookbase_book_id - 5 - 10491
EXTH item: 100 - Author - 17 - Payne, Michael H.
EXTH item: 113 - ASIN - 10 - B000FBJ3ZW
EXTH item: 401 - ClippingLimit - 1 - 0xa
EXTH item: 403 - 403 - 1 - 0x0
EXTH item: 503 - UpdatedTitle - 27 - My Vampire Cat, or Whatever
EXTH item: 116 - StartReading - 4 -

[Jad]

Ok the output file is created with the new name but the actual book title is not being updated and is staying the same within the converted .mobi file.

Which version of Mobi2Mobi are you using?

Have you tried doing the change purely at a command line level to see if the problem persists? The GUI is just a fancy batch file builder and the issue you are having maybe in Mobi2Mobi itself. If the mods you are making work at a command line level then its my GUI causing the problem.

Sorry I don't have any non/drm'd .azw files to test with.

Can you please test at the command line level to help narrow down where the problem is?

Cheers

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by Jad

Ok the output file is created with the new name but the actual book title is not being updated and is staying the same within the converted .mobi file.

Which version of Mobi2Mobi are you using?

Have you tried doing the change purely at a command line level to see if the problem persists? The GUI is just a fancy batch file builder and the issue you are having maybe in Mobi2Mobi itself. If the mods you are making work at a command line level then its my GUI causing the problem.

Sorry I don't have any non/drm'd .azw files to test with.

Can you please test at the command line level to help narrow down where the problem is?

Cheers

I'm using 0.0.40.

I just finished the command line version and it doesn't seem to be working either. The file name changes but the book title doesn't.

I've been working on a Kindle Visual guide using a DRM'd file from BooksonBoard which has worked no matter what I've thrown at it (even after Kindlfixing into a .azw file from .prc). This Amazon version is kicking my butt.

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

The file name changes but the book title doesn't.

On the Kindle there have been reports that the "updatedtitle" will over-ride the longtitle (from --title), and that if this already exists you may need:

mobi2mobi --outfile [output filename] --exthtype updatedtitle --exthdata "[Corrected Title]" [original AZW/MOBI filename]

See Change book title to remove typos and extraneous info?.

[Jad]

Allrighty... If its not working at a command line level then its a Mobi2Mobi issue. You'll need to post this over in the Mobiperl thread and see if tompe can sort out what is going on with the book title not updating correctly. Sorry I can't be of further help.

Hopefully tompe can fix this for you.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

On the Kindle there have been reports that the "updatedtitle" will over-ride the longtitle (from --title), and that if this already exists you may need:

mobi2mobi --outfile [output filename] --exthtype updatedtitle --exthdata "[Corrected Title]" [original AZW/MOBI filename]

See Change book title to remove typos and extraneous info?.

So I guess this is info that I should place in the "exth data" box of the GUI> I'm going to give it a try.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by Jad

Allrighty... If its not working at a command line level then its a Mobi2Mobi issue. You'll need to post this over in the Mobiperl thread and see if tompe can sort out what is going on with the book title not updating correctly. Sorry I can't be of further help.

Hopefully tompe can fix this for you.

Thank Jad. I appreciate you making the update at my request and being patient enough to walk me through it. If Wallcraft's suggestion doesn't work, I post in the mobiperl thread.

Thanks again.