Bug 781837

Summary:	RFE: Generate .mobi files
Product:	[Community] Publican	Reporter:	eric
Component:	publican	Assignee:	Jeff Fearn 🐞 <jfearn>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Ruediger Landmann <rlandman>
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Version:	2.9	CC:	herrold, rlandman+disabled, rlandman
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Description eric 2012-01-15 15:58:26 UTC

Description of problem: Publican should create .mobi files so that users of Kindle devices can utilize Publican-generated goodness.

Calibre can convert from epub to mobi so perhaps we can use this functionality?

Comment 1 Ruediger Landmann 2012-01-15 23:39:54 UTC

I like this idea, but this is something that would need to get added upstream, so I'm moving it there.

MobiPerl would probably be a better solution for us than Calibre: https://dev.mobileread.com/trac/mobiperl

Cheers, 
Rudi

Comment 2 R P Herrold 2013-12-05 22:01:35 UTC

Mobipler link wend dead -- now outlink seems to be:
   http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17718

which in turn has an archive:
   http://www.ida.liu.se/~tompe/mobiperl/downloads/

and an optimistic statement up a level that a dead URL was at one point live
   http://www.ida.liu.se/~tompe/mobiperl/

which seems to have moved into a wiki at:
   http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Mobiperl

The supported formats seem to be:

     html2mobi - Convert HTML file to a MobiPocket file.
    opf2mobi - Convert an opf file structure to a MobiPocket file.
    lit2mobi - Convert a lit file to a MobiPocket file.
    mobi2html - Explode a DRM free MobiPocket file.
    mobi2mobi - Manipulate meta data for a MobiPocket file.

Comment 3 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2017-01-09 10:25:09 UTC

There are plenty of tools to convert epubs to mobi, so I don;t think there is any need for publican to have this feature. Anyone using such a tool that has problems consuming publican generated epubs can open a bug and we'll try and make them play happily together.