used mobi2mobi - no longer indexable?

bxrLvr · 04-01-2009, 09:27 PM

Hi,

I used mobi2mobi to change the meta data on a book I purchased from Amazon and it seems like my Kindle is no longer able to index the book. I had it on the Kindle for at least 4 days and when I tried to do a search in the book today, it said the book had not yet been indexed. I downloaded the original from my archives and within 5 min, it was indexed and I was able to search thru it.

This is the mobi2mobi command I ran:
mobi2mobi "Nineteen Eighty Four 1984 by Geo-asin_B001MCBEU0-type_EBOK-v_0.azw" --outfile "Nineteen Eighty Four.azw" --author "Orwell, George"

This it the book: http://www.amazon.com/Nineteen-Eight...8634695&sr=1-1

Any ideas? Anyone else run into this issue?

I have not run into this with any other book, but all my other books are public domain books from feedbooks etc.

-Tina

bxrLvr · 04-07-2009, 06:21 PM

so no one else has run into this problem? or is this a known issue??

tompe · 04-07-2009, 07:11 PM

Strange. Maybe if thinks the book is already indexed but when trying to access the index by searching it notices that it is not there.

Maybe you can try to remove the book from the Kindle and then copy your modified version to the Kindel?

Elsi · 04-07-2009, 08:33 PM

Since it's an AZW file, maybe there's some requirement that the file name match something that's inside the metadata and by renaming the file you've prevented it from doing some kind of validity check and therefore interfered with the indexing. As an experiment, after running mobi2mobi, rename the output to the exact name of the original file and then see if it will index.

bwaldron · 04-08-2009, 06:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bxrLvr

so no one else has run into this problem?

I never have, and I regularly edit metatada on my .azw books.

bxrLvr · 04-11-2009, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elsi

Since it's an AZW file, maybe there's some requirement that the file name match something that's inside the metadata and by renaming the file you've prevented it from doing some kind of validity check and therefore interfered with the indexing. As an experiment, after running mobi2mobi, rename the output to the exact name of the original file and then see if it will index.

keeping the exact name of the original file seem to have fixed my problem, thanks!!

too bad I just noticed that my screen fades in sunlight

already contacted amazon, will be receiving a new one soon.

04-01-2009, 09:27 PM	#1
bxrLvr Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 102 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: California Device: Kindle 3, iPad	used mobi2mobi - no longer indexable? Hi, I used mobi2mobi to change the meta data on a book I purchased from Amazon and it seems like my Kindle is no longer able to index the book. I had it on the Kindle for at least 4 days and when I tried to do a search in the book today, it said the book had not yet been indexed. I downloaded the original from my archives and within 5 min, it was indexed and I was able to search thru it. This is the mobi2mobi command I ran: mobi2mobi "Nineteen Eighty Four 1984 by Geo-asin_B001MCBEU0-type_EBOK-v_0.azw" --outfile "Nineteen Eighty Four.azw" --author "Orwell, George" This it the book: http://www.amazon.com/Nineteen-Eight...8634695&sr=1-1 Any ideas? Anyone else run into this issue? I have not run into this with any other book, but all my other books are public domain books from feedbooks etc. -Tina

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04-07-2009, 06:21 PM	#2
bxrLvr Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 102 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: California Device: Kindle 3, iPad	so no one else has run into this problem? or is this a known issue??

04-07-2009, 07:11 PM	#3
tompe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,452 Karma: 7185064 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Linköpng, Sweden Device: Kindle Voyage, Nexus 5, Kindle PW	Strange. Maybe if thinks the book is already indexed but when trying to access the index by searching it notices that it is not there. Maybe you can try to remove the book from the Kindle and then copy your modified version to the Kindel?

04-07-2009, 08:33 PM	#4
Elsi Wizard Posts: 2,366 Karma: 12000 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Texas, USA Device: Kindle; Sony PRS 505; Blackberry 8700C	Since it's an AZW file, maybe there's some requirement that the file name match something that's inside the metadata and by renaming the file you've prevented it from doing some kind of validity check and therefore interfered with the indexing. As an experiment, after running mobi2mobi, rename the output to the exact name of the original file and then see if it will index.

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