new Mobipocket thread

sirdouglas · 10-05-2008, 01:39 AM

I accidentally posted this in the other thread, eek! anywho...

Sorry for another mobipocket reader thread. While I posted this in my last thread about converting to mobi in mass, it was a little irrelevant to the original subject, and I think few are still reading that thread by now. Hopefully the following applies to other as well.

So here it is. Despite loving mobipocket reader, I'm having a few minor problems with it that I would like to resolve. First, when I add a folder of books, it adds the first book of the list labeled with the correct title and author, but all books that follow automatically insert the same author as the first book! So if drag a large folder of books with the first book in the folder being Harry Potter, all the books following this will have J.K. Rowling as the author. Any ideas? It's been frustrating re-labeling every book one by one.

Second, I'm loving having my books organized by author and title, and the Reading Lists add a nice extra organization aspect, but is there more to the organization feature with Mobipocket that I'm just missing? I feel like the reading lists should be expandable just like Windows Explorer with folders. Then I could make one reading list called "Fiction" and within that reading list have different genres (a "mystery" subfolder, "adventure," ect). Wouldn't that make sense. Is there a better way for organization?

Third, some of my books are in .DOC and although I have the similar free version of Microsoft Office (Open Office), it still won't let me add .DOC files because I "don't have Word installed." Any way around this?

Fourth, um, yeah I think that's it actually Sorry to throw all my problems at you, but I sure appreciate the help!

Thanks!

Doug

DDHarriman · 10-08-2008, 05:32 AM

For your .doc books, just save them in .html and then import them into Mobipocket Creator.

arvsinha · 10-11-2008, 10:38 PM

Sirdouglas,
I have not come across the author renaming problem in my computers.
If the metatags are properly filled in, the names and authors are almost always correctly added.
The mobipocket book reader does have filtering results via genre at least in the windoze version

However, this facility seems to be missing in the mobile versions of the same.
Doc file can be easily imported after you open your doc file in Open Office and save as html - as DDHarriman rightly pointed out.

10-05-2008, 01:39 AM	#1
sirdouglas Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: BeBook	new Mobipocket thread I accidentally posted this in the other thread, eek! anywho... Sorry for another mobipocket reader thread. While I posted this in my last thread about converting to mobi in mass, it was a little irrelevant to the original subject, and I think few are still reading that thread by now. Hopefully the following applies to other as well. So here it is. Despite loving mobipocket reader, I'm having a few minor problems with it that I would like to resolve. First, when I add a folder of books, it adds the first book of the list labeled with the correct title and author, but all books that follow automatically insert the same author as the first book! So if drag a large folder of books with the first book in the folder being Harry Potter, all the books following this will have J.K. Rowling as the author. Any ideas? It's been frustrating re-labeling every book one by one. Second, I'm loving having my books organized by author and title, and the Reading Lists add a nice extra organization aspect, but is there more to the organization feature with Mobipocket that I'm just missing? I feel like the reading lists should be expandable just like Windows Explorer with folders. Then I could make one reading list called "Fiction" and within that reading list have different genres (a "mystery" subfolder, "adventure," ect). Wouldn't that make sense. Is there a better way for organization? Third, some of my books are in .DOC and although I have the similar free version of Microsoft Office (Open Office), it still won't let me add .DOC files because I "don't have Word installed." Any way around this? Fourth, um, yeah I think that's it actually Sorry to throw all my problems at you, but I sure appreciate the help! Thanks! Doug

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10-08-2008, 05:32 AM	#2
DDHarriman Guru Posts: 860 Karma: 4380 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Almada, Portugal Device: Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS 505, Kindle DXG and Samsung Galaxy Note	For your .doc books, just save them in .html and then import them into Mobipocket Creator.

10-11-2008, 10:38 PM	#3
arvsinha Intrepid Explorer Posts: 57 Karma: 28 Join Date: Jul 2008 Device: Kindle 2	Sirdouglas, I have not come across the author renaming problem in my computers. If the metatags are properly filled in, the names and authors are almost always correctly added. The mobipocket book reader does have filtering results via genre at least in the windoze version However, this facility seems to be missing in the mobile versions of the same. Doc file can be easily imported after you open your doc file in Open Office and save as html - as DDHarriman rightly pointed out.

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