Mobi filename restricted characters?

Trewaters · 11-17-2011, 01:44 PM

This is my first post. Yay! I am so happy I found this forum. I just started making ebooks for a small publishing house and I am learning as I go.

Does anyone know where I can find a list of restricted characters for my Mobi filename? I got an error from my kindle when I tried to open a file with a "-" dash in the filename.

The name was "The Pleasure Dial by Jeremy Edwards - OC Press.mobi", once I removed the dash and used + instead things were fine. Now my file is "The+Pleasure+Dial+by+Jeremy+Edwards+OC+Press.mobi " and everything works fine.

Thanks for the help

susan_cassidy · 11-17-2011, 01:47 PM

I have dozens of .mobi books with hyphens in the name. Are you sure it was a regular hyphen, and not an ndash or something?

Trewaters · 11-23-2011, 03:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by susan_cassidy

I have dozens of .mobi books with hyphens in the name. Are you sure it was a regular hyphen, and not an ndash or something?

Thanks for the response. I haven't taken the time to test that. But I have another book I am working on this week so I will have an answer then.

Trewaters · 12-02-2011, 11:21 AM

I had no problems using a dash.

Sorry for my slow response and thanks again for your answer. It was very helpful.

11-17-2011, 01:44 PM	#1
Trewaters eBook Engineer Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Fort Collins, CO Device: None	Mobi filename restricted characters? This is my first post. Yay! I am so happy I found this forum. I just started making ebooks for a small publishing house and I am learning as I go. Does anyone know where I can find a list of restricted characters for my Mobi filename? I got an error from my kindle when I tried to open a file with a "-" dash in the filename. The name was "The Pleasure Dial by Jeremy Edwards - OC Press.mobi", once I removed the dash and used + instead things were fine. Now my file is "The+Pleasure+Dial+by+Jeremy+Edwards+OC+Press.mobi " and everything works fine. Thanks for the help

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11-17-2011, 01:47 PM	#2
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	I have dozens of .mobi books with hyphens in the name. Are you sure it was a regular hyphen, and not an ndash or something?

12-02-2011, 11:21 AM	#4
Trewaters eBook Engineer Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Fort Collins, CO Device: None	I had no problems using a dash. Sorry for my slow response and thanks again for your answer. It was very helpful.