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for a long time Sony users were able to use the program Calibre to manage our ebook library, and convert LIT, Mobi, html, rtf/word documents into LRF or Epub. It's a GREAT program. I use it all the time.

Now Kindle and Cybook users can use Calibre too. I checked the changelog for the newest version. http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/Changelog and it appears that they've added Kindle and Cybook detection and the ability to convert files to mobi. (I'm sure the first version will probably have bugs but what I'm going to test tonight is batch convert and see if I can make mulitple mobipocket files)

I'm rather excited about this development. :)

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Okay, so I downloaded it and I can't see a way to convert a file to a mobi file. Where is the command line?

I haven't had the chance to test this yet. I'm still at work. :(

but I have one time used the command prompt to do a LRF2LRF in order to change the margins.

you have to use the command line it should be any2mobi.

so from the command prompt i normally move the story I wanted converted into the C: drive to make things easier for me.

I type in any2mobi thefilename and hit enter.

http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/user_manual/cli/any2mobi.html

Heh. Yeah, when you said command line, I was thinking inside the program, not the *windows command line*. But I figured it out.

And it did work. I used an rtf file and created a *.mobi file which I loaded manually (which is the only way to load them as far as I can tell) and could read it. So, yay!

This is actually easier than mobipocket creator.

Once the bugs are worked out (like the program not liking html) I think they'll add it to the graphic interface. :) I don't think many people know how to use the command line and to be honest I can use it I'm just not as comfortable with it.

And yes Calibre is so much easier than Mobipocket creator. I looked at Creator and I think my eyes kind of went crosseyed. :)

I've been playing with it. It likes simple html all right and simple rtf, but anything fancy doesn't work as well.

I have a story I just tried to code and it couldn't deal with the different fonts and colors. I got one long file of text without breaks at all.

I get the feeling it's going to take a few more versions before the kinks in this mobi conversion are worked out it took about 10 versions before epub got better. but the good news is that the program now supports mobi. :) I never thought I'd see that happen.

Yeah. I think it may hang on bigger files, too. I've just tried to create a file that was just under a meg. It's still either processing it, or it's hung. Still, it's so easy to use.

Okay, I was wrong. It did convert the big rtf file, but it took about 7-8 minutes.

Well it's a start... I was hoping it would be less buggy though. It shouldn't take 7-8 minutes to convert. How did the mobi version come out though?

I wanted to test it with files that have a table of contents and images and see how that goes.

Yes, it did come out eventually. And it took about 7-8 minutes. I commented on my post after it finally finished. The smaller files were very quick.

to use this feature you have to use the command line. Not sure if you need python installed or not though? I had python installed some time ago to use mobidedrm.

Python is not required. I just went to the directory where the file was and typed any2mobi [file name] and it took a second or two, and then it was there. It does not like fancy html, however.

Are there enough people out there for me to really try and make my sugar quill module released into the main core ?

It Can work reliably for lrf but epub is a right pain !

I'd really want it to work! :) Right, though still not sure what you mean by main core.

I'm also having difficulty replicating my results for LRF into ePub.:(

not sure what css I need to use but I LOVE the way my LRF's come out and I've been having difficulty figuring out what I'm doing wrong with epub. I figured maybe it was still in the beta process.

I was wondering if you could do something similar with efiction archives? I've always wanted to be able to download stories when author's posted something new? or be able to keep track of the Recently Added page? Basically, any site that can host an rss feed we should be able to make reciepes for, right?

Sugar quill runs on another type of archiving software though. :( I wrote to the admin and she said someone else built it for them.

Given the choice would you prefer me to spend some time next week, working on the sugar quill and epub ( Which basically means stipping as much formatting out until the prs-505 stops crashing ) or having ago at another site ?

The html on the sugar quill is really nasty as they let the authors just paster raw html into the page so often they have multiple headers etc. And Microsoft word produces evil html and style sheets as well.

Given enough time a script could be produced to do something useful with any site. Its the enough time thing thats the problem.

I have been working on doing a good job at transforming comics, for the last couple of weeks.

I get the feeling any site you go to will have formatting issues all over the place. :) I'm in no rush. I also think it's best to finish one project before starting another. So SugarQuill it is.

As for comics have you had any experience with manga's??? i was going to try the .cbr function and see how good the LRF's come out. :) But I think I still have the Ultimate Spiderman series on my computer somewhere...just not sure how well those would translate to black/white.

I looked into the comic2lrf and I have very good eyesight and I can read the comics and they do look good. However sometimes the text is too small, After hassling kovid about lrf and epub. I discovered that the rendering engine does the right thing for landscape mode pdfs ( eg you can get more pixels in ). So I did the work for comic2pdf which i think you can guess what it does....

( It requires reportlabs which kovid's not going to bundle until verison .5 which is going to be in the next month or so ), but it does work :)

I have got a version yet to be integrated which will take a directory and generae a pdf with table of contents where each directory is a sub table of contents and each file is a table of contents entry, its very sweet I just need to do the merge back in with the main code.

Okay I'm really looking forward to seeing this when it's merged. :) It's funny you'd think they'd market e-ink devices to manga/anime/comic fans but they haven't really. It's the right screen size...and if people who are already working full time can figure this stuff out on their free time imagine what someone could accomplish if they worked on this full time...okay I take that back they'd probably bring out something like Vista...

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