Mobi2Mobi Mobi2Mobi v0.13 - GUI for Mobiperl tools

[Jad]

Credit where credit is due... If it wasn't for Tommy's hard work, there wouldn't be a GUI for his very useful tool.

I'm glad that the GUI is proving useful to the community at large though. You see the download numbers tickover, but very few people bother to provide feedback about wether the application is doing its job.

Feedback and functionality requests from people like yourself make the time and effort spent programming worthwhile.

[Ortep]

Originally Posted by Jad

Feedback and functionality requests from people like yourself make the time and effort spent programming worthwhile.

I use it a lot

[JSWolf]

Are that many mobi eBooks that wrong with the metadata?

[pdurrant]

Lots of commercial mobi ebook have bad metadata, and almost all have poor covers.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Are that many mobi eBooks that wrong with the metadata?

[TallMomof2]

At least 50% probably closer to 75% of my mobi books have the author entered first_name last_name instead of last_name, first_name when the author is even entered! That's my biggest pet peeve with ebooks and I spend a significant amount of reading time fixing these errors.

[Leep]

Mobipocket library books fixed with Kindlefix usually have titles missing or mangled, so Mobi2mobi is essential.

[Ortep]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Are that many mobi eBooks that wrong with the metadata?

Try downloading from Bean. Most of the time there is no or a wrong (formatted) Author, no Genre, even the Title is somtimes wrong. And I never found one that had a decent cover. And the covers are availabe, the have them on their site

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by TallMomof2

At least 50% probably closer to 75% of my mobi books have the author entered first_name last_name instead of last_name, first_name when the author is even entered! That's my biggest pet peeve with ebooks and I spend a significant amount of reading time fixing these errors.

Actually library management software should make this sort of fix unnecessary. The management display should automatically figure this out based on the presence of the comma although some complicated names may need some help.

Dale

[AZed]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Actually library management software should make this sort of fix unnecessary. The management display should automatically figure this out based on the presence of the comma although some complicated names may need some help.

It's actually slightly more complicated than that. This is on the ToDo list for either v0.3 or v0.4 of EBook::Tools (probably 0.4, since 0.3 has been delayed longer than I wanted already, and I really don't know how to solve this well yet), and you have to discriminate between:

John de Camp, Ph. D.
John de Camp, Ph.D.
de Camp, John, Ph.D.
cummings, e. e.
Doe, John

To make matters worse, fixing the actual text of the dc:creator element is technically the wrong solution -- the machine-sorted name is supposed to be in the opf:file-as attribute, and the text is supposed to contain the byline version of the name. Unfortunately, you pretty much have to abuse the text component this way because popular-but-broken library implementations like Mobipocket Reader ignore the file-as attribute completely.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by AZed

It's actually slightly more complicated than that. This is on the ToDo list for either v0.3 or v0.4 of EBook::Tools (probably 0.4, since 0.3 has been delayed longer than I wanted already, and I really don't know how to solve this well yet), and you have to discriminate between:

John de Camp, Ph. D.
John de Camp, Ph.D.
de Camp, John, Ph.D.
cummings, e. e.
Doe, John

To make matters worse, fixing the actual text of the dc:creator element is technically the wrong solution -- the machine-sorted name is supposed to be in the opf:file-as attribute, and the text is supposed to contain the byline version of the name. Unfortunately, you pretty much have to abuse the text component this way because popular-but-broken library implementations like Mobipocket Reader ignore the file-as attribute completely.

True, the John de Camp case is one of the more complicated ones I mentioned. There is an option in opf to guide in the implementation of complicated ones with last names that include spaces and titles, such as PH.D., MD, Jr., Capt. etc. ePUB metadata also allows for guidance in the file for complicated names but for simple names the direct approach of first middle last is correct with the management tool providing the decode for the last name, first name approach.

Dale

[bwaldron]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Are that many mobi eBooks that wrong with the metadata?

Many (if not most) have incomplete metadata, or data that is inconsistent with one's own standards (e.g., author name formatted as first last instead of last, first -- or vice-versa).

I run mobi2mobi on all purchased books as a matter of course.

[marliebets]

I have downloaded the Mobi2Mobi Perl files, the Mobi2Mobi Gui program and NET framework 3.5 SP1. I am running Vista.

Everytime I try to open a azw or prc file in the GUI program I get a message that says:

Unhandled exception has occured in your application.

Index was outside the bounds of the array.

Can anyone help?

[pshrynk]

Dumb newb question: Is the link on the very first page the right one? Do I need to do anything to my Vista 64 bit machine to make it run? Kay Thnx!

[pshrynk]

So, I got my mobi2mobi gui to work and disocvered that I can make edits right on the Kindle itself. Probably another dumb newb observation, but there it is.

[b5delenn]

Hi, I'm new here.

I'm buying ebooks in prc format, they show nicely in my PC (Windows XP Pro SP2) and I can even change the way the title and author shows in the library in mobipocket reader. The problem is that this option is not available in mobipocket reader for Windows Mobile: so I can read my ebooks in my ppc (ipaq 214, WM6) with mobipocket reader too, but in the library I cannot change the title or author. This is annoying and I supposse it has to be with the way its author made the prc.

I've been using the gui to change the title and add the author, it works fine except in the encrypted prc, it seems to work but when I try to open the book i get a "corrupt file" error in mobipocket.

I don't want to break the encryptation, I just want to be able to see the titles and authors properly in the ebook I've paid for, and not the "amk_shifting1" I get. I supposse the person who generates that ebook did not worry about make it show properly in the library but it's not fair for me.

Can I make something with the gui to change title/author in encrypted prc?

If you know any way I can change it in my device with mobipocket reader it works for me too, I repat, I just want to see the library with title and authors, not a jumble or abreviation of the correct title.

Thanks.