Comments on: So is Mobipocket Desktop finally importing .epub in style? If so, Kindle owners will be among those benefiting

By: Mary Minot on Kindles in Libraries… « If Only I Had Known….GPL RefDesk

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:23:51 +0000

[...] for reflowable digital books that theoretically should let users read books on any ebook reader. David tells us that mobipocket (which Kindles can read) is finally importing .epub, so Kindle owners can [...]

By: Greg Schofield

Greg Schofield — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:27:58 +0000

Same thing with 6.2, and a couple of crashes (it is only Beta).

By: Greg Schofield

Greg Schofield — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:54:46 +0000

Tried Adobe’s Digital Editions of “Alice in Wonderland” which internally looks fine as an epub.

Did not do so well in 6.1. Entities did not come through, nor did any illustrations.

The Entities were for quote marks &O; (open double) etc.,.

By: Yoda47

Yoda47 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:38:25 +0000

I’m still having problems importing .epub books into Mobipocket 6.1.

My experience is as such:

The very first import works perfectly.

At the second import, one of two things will happen.

1. The progress bar will go, no errors, but the book will not open and will not import.

2. It will look like the import is successful, the book will open, and you can read it, but the title will not show up in the library.

If the first error happens, closing and re-opening Mobipocket then re-importing will open the book, but the title will not show in the library.

I tried to open a good dozen .epub files, and I managed to get one other title to import “A Christmas Carol” from Feedbooks. I then tried other .epub files from various sources, and none of them would import. (Including David Crockett from my site as mentioned above as one that others were able to import)

I’ve un-installed and re-installed several times, and it seem the very first .epub book from any source will import, then the above problems happen on .epub files from any source.

By: Hadrien

Hadrien — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:14:57 +0000

Just tried it with some of our epub files on Feedbooks and it worked fine. But now that Feedbooks also generate Mobipocket files, it’s easier for those using this format to directly download the Mobipocket version.

What I’d like to see on the Mobipocket front is a mobigen for Unix systems, and Mobipocket Reader and Creator for Linux/Mac.