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Old 10-25-2016, 06:07 AM   #16
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One would have thought they might have tried moving their customer libraries to the Kindle platform!
Shouldn't they do what everyone else has done and sell their customers to Kobo?
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Old 10-25-2016, 07:28 AM   #17
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Shouldn't they do what everyone else has done and sell their customers to Kobo?
This has already been addressed earlier in the thread.
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I have forgotten my password for the site and their "forgot your password" feature does not seem to be working, so I guess I am out of luck. Pretty sure I don't have any books there, anyway, so I'm not worried.
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I do have one book that I wasn't able to reconvert (to put a functional cover on) but I found it does read properly on the Kindle Fire (an upgrade perhaps?) so at least I can read it on the go now.
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Old 10-26-2016, 12:09 AM   #20
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This has already been addressed earlier in the thread.
And it was even the post immediately before the one I quoted.
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Old 10-26-2016, 12:40 AM   #21
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I have forgotten my password for the site and their "forgot your password" feature does not seem to be working, so I guess I am out of luck. Pretty sure I don't have any books there, anyway, so I'm not worried.
Same here.
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Old 10-30-2016, 01:46 AM   #22
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Is there anything on the site that we might need to archive. I already anticipated this and captured EBook HTML in our wiki for archive purposes.

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MobiCreator and MobiReader installers perhaps, maybe they're available from elsewhere. If not I have them

I use the first for most PDF conversions, whilst it has no tweaks it usually does a better and a more consistent job than 'bells and whistles' converters and it's faster, and I sometimes use the latter.

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Old 10-30-2016, 05:30 AM   #23
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All the developer documentation has already been captured by archive.org.

See https://web.archive.org/web/20160314...ev/default.asp
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All the developer documentation has already been captured by archive.org.

See https://web.archive.org/web/20160314...ev/default.asp
Thank you - that's very useful to know.
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Old 10-31-2016, 10:46 AM   #25
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All the developer documentation has already been captured by archive.org.

See https://web.archive.org/web/20160314...ev/default.asp
A word of warning: the data in the web archive might be forever, but the access isn't.
If the (new) owner of the domain decides that no one should have access to the (perhaps unrelated!) website on the domain, then web archive will take this to mean the archived content should not be accessible either.

IOW: access to web.archive only as long as the live(!) robots.txt allows it.
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MobiCreator and MobiReader installers perhaps, maybe they're available from elsewhere. If not I have them

I use the first for most PDF conversions, whilst it has no tweaks it usually does a better and a more consistent job than 'bells and whistles' converters and it's faster, and I sometimes use the latter.

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@BetterRed - Please share a copy.

Also suggest a replacement for .mobi previews on Windows.

I have an older version of mobipocket that screams and use Sumatra for ePub (would that be better/ best for .mobi also for Viewing and Windows Explorer based "Preview" tab/ panel)?
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Old 08-25-2021, 06:47 AM   #27
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A word of warning: the data in the web archive might be forever, but the access isn't.
If the (new) owner of the domain decides that no one should have access to the (perhaps unrelated!) website on the domain, then web archive will take this to mean the archived content should not be accessible either.

IOW: access to web.archive only as long as the live(!) robots.txt allows it.
Cant download the Setup/ Installers for right now. Dead or Blocked.
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Old 08-25-2021, 07:21 AM   #28
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Calibre is far better for Mobi creation or preview.
LO Writer far better for PDF creation and there are very many PDF viewers (Foxit on Windows, Xodo on Android).

The mobi programs are pointless. They were pointless even in in 2016.

Amazon bought mobipocket, which first was selling ebooks for Palm PDA, Win CE PDA and Symbian before Amazon sold ebooks. Maybe even before most people had heard of Amazon. Then of course they killed it. Switched off the servers for DRM too. A failure of USA Consumer regulation.
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A word of warning: the data in the web archive might be forever, but the access isn't.
If the (new) owner of the domain decides that no one should have access to the (perhaps unrelated!) website on the domain, then web archive will take this to mean the archived content should not be accessible either.

IOW: access to web.archive only as long as the live(!) robots.txt allows it.
For what it matters, in the years since this was post the Wayback Machine has changed their policy. Lots of domain squatters blocking access to previous versions of sites.

But it's still contingent on the website having been archived to begin with.
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Calibre is far better for Mobi creation or preview.
LO Writer far better for PDF creation and there are very many PDF viewers (Foxit on Windows, Xodo on Android).

The mobi programs are pointless. They were pointless even in in 2016.

Amazon bought mobipocket, which first was selling ebooks for Palm PDA, Win CE PDA and Symbian before Amazon sold ebooks. Maybe even before most people had heard of Amazon. Then of course they killed it. Switched off the servers for DRM too. A failure of USA Consumer regulation.
I am sure Well, way back I installed mobipocket, and its still present albeit not used much. So wanted to keep for who knows when.

PS: In terms of "preview" Pane in Windows Explorer, not within Calibre App, is that possible?
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