Content Kindle Comic Converter - Convert comics/manga to MOBI/EPUB

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by axu2

And does anyone remember when pdoc covers started being read by Kindles?

I believe that was added in firmware version 5.15.1, released about two years ago.

[oncpnda]

Is there any chance you can add an option to allow splitting/table of contents using the old method with ComicInfo.xml?

<Pages>
<Page Image="0" Bookmark="Cover" />
<Page Image="1" Bookmark="Characters" />
<Page Image="3" Bookmark="Ch 1" />
<Page Image="67" Bookmark="Ch 2" />
<Page Image="117" Bookmark="Ch 3" />
<Page Image="165" Bookmark="Bonus Chapter" />
<Page Image="171" Bookmark="Back Cover" />
</Pages>

The reason I ask is because using the folder structure
1. gets rid of the ability to use unicode in the chapter name for special characters
2. forces chapter order to be alphabetical rather than number based.

For example, if I have a book with the following:

1. Cover
2. Characters
3. Chapter 1
4. Chapter 2
5. Bonus Chapter
6. Back Cover

Then the order due to OS folder limitations will be

Back Cover
Bonus Chapter
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Characters
Cover

If I want to preserve the order, then I have to add arbitrary numbers in front of the folder name, which doesn't look great imo.

0 Cover
1 Characters
2 Chapter 1
3 Chapter 2
4 Bonus Chapter
5 Back Cover

I know there were issues with the Image="#" causing indexing problems when there were split pages and other factors, but I was able to just change the Image="#" to account for that.

[axu2]

When you say old method, did an older kcc version work how you described?

Chapters for manga with file size split are automatically removed since the logic of chapters being split across files got messy.

[oncpnda]

Yes, I don't remember which version of KCC it was, but it was from maybe before 2019.

I would put the chapters in the ComicInfo.xml file and when I converted it to a .mobi, I would get selectable chapters on both Calibre and Kindle. You can see the attached screenshots.

I had to upgrade to the latest version of KCC because the one I had stopped working on Mac OS 15.1, but after trying to convert the same book with the same ComicInfo.xml, there were no chapters or table of contents being generated.

An example .xml file is also attached.

[axu2]

Thank you for the report, I have merged a fix. It has been broken since 5.6.4.

KCC had a ComicInfo.xml list index out of range issue when files were chunked. I fixed this issue by disabling ComicInfo.xml bookmarks when no split occured, but I actually disabled bookmarks entirely. Whoops. Fixed now.

Also changed the mobi header from EBOK to PDOC for these devices:

ProfilesKindlePDOC = {
'KO': ("Kindle Oasis 2/3/Paperwhite 12/Colorsoft 12", (1264, 1680), Palette16, 1.8),
'K11': ("Kindle 11", (1072, 1448), Palette16, 1.8),
'KPW5': ("Kindle Paperwhite 5/Signature Edition", (1236, 1648), Palette16, 1.8),
'KS': ("Kindle Scribe", (1860, 2480), Palette16, 1.8),
}

This makes cover upload on MTP kindles way easier and is the only way to get covers on colorsoft. No need to copy a thumbnail file anymore. Or leaving kindle plugged in during conversion.

These devices all can run the earliest kindle firmware that you mentioned that read PDOC covers directly from file.

Let me know if this change might cause issues.

Test build with fixes here: https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc/pull/767