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.chm to .mobi or .pdf conversion results are not good. help please!
Ok. So I've got this new Kindle eReader and I've installed Calibre for some book conversions. There are 2 books: Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Edition and Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th Edition around 400 mb in .chm format and when I convert them to .pdf/.mobi it results in 1.3 mb or 300 kb in .mobi format. When I read them on my reader it shows only the first 20-30 pages instead of 8000. I can see the Table of Contents. Can someone explain why is this happening please? And if there is somewhat a solution?
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The converter will extract the files from the CHM, leaving you with a folder of html files. Open the index file in your browser to test the results. If you get good results, then use calibre to convert the html to your desired format. Be aware that your navigation options in the resulting ebook will vary depending on what the format supports. You may have to do further work in Sigil (also free). Really large CHM files can be tricky. I have some electronic copies of codes and regulations that came in CHM format, and it took me a week to get a good conversion that worked properly. |
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Once calibre imports the content based on that file, it will show up as a book in your library, which you can then convert. |
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07-01-2014, 09:48 AM | #7 |
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Chm to Mobi problem
I use Kindle Touch eReader and I've installed latest Calibre on my PC.
Want to convert Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 18th Edition around 400 mb in .chm format and when I convert them to .mobi it results in 1.3 mb or 300 kb in .mobi format. When I read them on my reader it shows only the first 20-30 pages instead of 8000. I can see the Table of Contents. Can someone explain why is this happening please? And if there is somewhat a solution? |
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07-01-2014, 04:47 PM | #9 |
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Tried but calibre convert just the source page!
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07-01-2014, 04:52 PM | #10 |
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did you convert the CHM to HTML using CHM Decoder ?
BR BTW - please don't ask the same question in different places - it annoys the people who give freely of their own time to help solve your problems |
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Just putting the question in the proper section "conversion" |
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07-01-2014, 11:38 PM | #13 |
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And did you do what CWatkinsNash suggested in post #5 ?
If you did and you still have problems then please provide the details as per this sticky thread ==>> How to ask a question about conversion problems BR |
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07-02-2014, 03:54 AM | #15 |
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chm decoder generate a table of content with java tree so calibre is not recognizing java
when i convert just one page it is okay |
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