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?
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
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.
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.