10-01-2013, 10:25 AM | #1 |
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How to edit MOBI documents?
Once I download a reference book I want the Table of Contents to be the first thing I see when I open it...duh. Not copyright/introduction/preface stuff I always see and have to wade through every time its opened. With a book on paper it doesn't matter so much but we all know navigating with digital tools is often a real chore. So I want to start my navigation obviously at the TOC. So I'd love to just delete everything before the TOC. Is this easily possible? I've tried a few mobi readers but none seem to allow any deletion of text.
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10-01-2013, 10:43 AM | #2 | |
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10-01-2013, 10:48 AM | #3 |
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You can't edit a mobi file (not easily anyway). It's a compiled binary database. You must convert to an easily editable format (or extract the markup using kindle|mobi-unpack) edit that, and then rebuild the mobi.
It's possible that you may be able to achieve what you want through a calibre mobi-to-mobi conversion, but not likely. If you want to delete content, your best bet is to convert to epub/html, delete the content you don't want, and then convert back to mobi with calibre or kindlegen. EDIT: what Doitsu said. |
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I know this is not exactly what you've been asking but doesn't your reader give you the option to open the TOC with just two (??) menu clicks?
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10-02-2013, 12:32 PM | #6 |
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I sure wish I could open the TOC with 2 menu clicks but often its unavailable. I have to manually scroll to it by turning pages. Usually I set the zoom to minimum so I'm scrolling as many pages as possible per page turn. Another option is to bookmark the TOC.
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10-02-2013, 12:33 PM | #7 |
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I should mention also that keeping the book in mobi doesn't matter. I could read it in txt, doc, html, epub, who cares? As long as text isn't missing I'm very happy. I found reading in txt has many advantages as page turning is much faster. Plus, you can copy and paste to your computer, edit what you want effortlessly, and copy back to the ereader. Its wonderful to work with.
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Yeah you lose formatting. I couldn't care less about that. I love the way mobi allows you to choose what font, size, margin parameters, etc, it displays. Formatting...that is long gone.
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10-02-2013, 03:57 PM | #10 |
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10-02-2013, 04:39 PM | #11 |
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It would be nice to have stuff like italics, I grant you that. That's the author pointing things out and should be retained if possible. But if its not, its not so bad. The words are there and that's what matters.
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10-02-2013, 08:12 PM | #12 |
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You could do a two-step conversion: first to HTML, replace the formatting, and then to TXT.
If I remember correctly, the desired formatting was indicated like this on a typewriter: *bold* /italics/ _underline_ In HTML you would need to replace (using some regular expressions): <b>text</b> -> <b>*text*</b> <i>text</i> -> <i>/text/</i> <u>text</u> -> <u>_text_</u> Then convert to txt, and you'll retain the formatting indication. However, if the book uses something like <span class="fat">text</span>, where the text is set to bold in the stylesheet, you'll need to replace the spans. Last edited by Katsunami; 10-02-2013 at 08:14 PM. |
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