12-06-2012, 09:18 PM | #16 |
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Even better than Word is using a powerful text editor like Notepad++ which supports regular expressions. I've been able to do some nicely finetuned cleanup that way.
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12-14-2012, 07:27 AM | #17 |
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Hi Jack,
Thank you for the tip. I was able to open the *.OPF file with Kindle Previewer, but only the one from the mobi7 folder. The one on the mobi8/OEBPS folder Kindle Previewer says it wasn't able to compile the book. Any other hints? |
12-14-2012, 07:30 AM | #18 |
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And also, the compiled book from the *.OPF file on the mobi7 folder only has the conver, and nothing else....
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12-14-2012, 10:29 AM | #19 |
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Did you leave the *.opf file in the OEBPS folder? It points to all the files and folders for the book, so it cannot be moved and then opened by itself, it has to remain with all the other book files.
The book might have other issues if the *.opf file cannot be opened in Kindle Previewer or doesn't work therein. Did you modify the *.opf file? You might need to ask you friend to give you the ePub file he created or whatever files he used to create the mobi file in the first place. |
12-16-2012, 11:50 AM | #20 |
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While this technique works, it's better to edit HTML in a text editor that doesn't put invisible characters in edited files. I heard Word does this a lot, and I'm not surprised considering how robust/bloated it is, even more specially for this kind of task which doesn't require text formatting. A better solution for this would be Notepad.
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12-16-2012, 01:52 PM | #21 | |
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Why would anyone care what the book looks like in code?!? Once on the eReader you're not going to notice anything different. It's not going to act slower or faster. It's just going to look better now you've edited it to your liking. I have done over 1000 books this way and never a issue. It works flawlessly. Too many books to do it all by hand. |
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12-20-2012, 05:21 AM | #22 |
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"Once you finish editing the html just drag into calibre and convert back to mobi. This way you get as close to original formatting as possible."
Just joined to get help with editing a kindle! Have returned again and again to this thread and got as far as editing from Calibre plug in... Have done changes - saved file - saved in "web" - it all looks fine... But how to I "drag" the HTML file to calibre and "convert" back to mobi? I can't see how to do it. Last edited by poetsapprentice; 12-20-2012 at 05:22 AM. Reason: Quotes didn't show |
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Yes I did, I kept it on the original folder. And, as a test, I just unpacked the mobi and tried to open the *.opf file with Kindle Previewer, but it just doesn't open it... It returns an error when opening... I'm using Notepad++ for the html editing - I'm not a developer myself but prefer to do that to avoid having Word add formatting that I don't wish it to. And when you "see" what the code looks like, you always learn something! Of course I don't have 1000 books to edit - if I had I'd probably go with Blossom's method! |
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But have now problems with editing. I edit on word, save as 'web', drag HTML file into calibre, convert to mobi - but every new editing shows new remedial issues appearing like paragraphs underlined, wrong spacing.... I've tried it several times now to try and identify what I'm doing incorrectly - but the file never converts exactly to original editing. I'm going round in circles with this one... Any advice welcome! |
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12-22-2012, 09:43 AM | #27 |
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My advice would be to ask in the correct forum. This forum is for discussing the Kindle itself, NOT the issues associated with creating Kindle books. You'll get far more help if you ask in the correct place, which is the "Mobi" forum. That's where the people knowledgeable about these issues hang out.
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