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Amalthia ([personal profile] amalthia) wrote in [community profile] fanfic_ebooks2009-01-20 02:16 pm
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This post is for Kindle and Cybook users

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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[identity profile] meri-oddities.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] amalthia 2009-01-21 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] meri-oddities.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] meri-oddities.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, I was wrong. It did convert the big rtf file, but it took about 7-8 minutes.
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[personal profile] amalthia 2009-01-21 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] meri-oddities.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 10:41 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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