[Mobi Converter For Mac
Betty Neyhart
MOBI is an eBook format that supports several eBook reading devices and gadgets. It also supports in mobile phones and PDAs. Although it is a file extension of Mobipocket Reader, most other eBook readers also support this file format. It also contains DRM to protect the digital right of the eBook. This format is officially discontinuing from the year 2011.
You can also do this without installing Calibre. This would be really handy on a Chromebook, for example. There is a free, online site called EPUB Converter that will let you upload the epub and it lets you then download the mobi equivalent.
Once you have installed the calibre package, you can use the GUI, but if you want to script it, there is also a command line converter installed as part of the calibre package - ebook-convert (docs). The simplest way to call it would be:
This free MOBI converter can convert various ebook files to MOBI (Mobipocket E-book) ebook, such as AZW, CBR, CBZ, DOCX, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF, RTF, TXT and more, or convert MOBI ebook files to other ebook formats, such as AZW, DOCX, EPUB, HTML, MOBI, PDF, RTF, TXT and more. The tool will try to maintain the ebook quality of the source file and create a high quality ebook file as much as possible. The output file format is based on your choice.
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This project was originally a quick and dirty method for me to convert my ebook collection in various formats to a kindle compatible format without worrying about the ebook source type. It takes PDF, Lit, and HTML files and converts them to .mobi.
I've tried Calibre too; it works, but the GUI too bulky for my simple needs (Calibre provides for library/ebook reader management, allowing you to see your whole library and control which books are synced to which device, including seamlessly converting books to the preferred format for any device along the way).
Fortunately Calibre is written in Python, and is nicely segmented; one tiny part of Calibre, ebook-convert (a command-line interface to the routines that actually handle the conversion) does everything I need.
On Ubuntu Karmic Koala, installation can be done with sudo apt-get install calibre. this will place ebook-convert in /usr/bin which should already be on your $PATH, so conversion just requires ebook-convert input-filename.pdf output-filename.mobi
The conversion is reasonably good, considering that you're going from a fixed layout format that has no concept of lines of text, let alone paragraphs, to a reflowing format; I've found that it makes reasonable guesses about chapter boundaries (and prepares a simple TOC accordingly), but other things (eg, hyperlinks in the existing TOC in the PDF) can get horribly mangled.. However, ebook-convert is very configureable - [the website][2] has a laundry list of flags you can use to improve chapter detection, what to do with detected chapters, stripping or adding page headers, etc
I'm not talking about some nasty hack-ola baloney here... these are books I have paid for and not looking to break the drm, just allow mobi to know about the licensing... and formatted so mobi can read it.
If they aren't DRMd/secured mobi ebooks, Calibre will do the changeover, BUT... I do this for a living (MAKE ebooks and print books for publishers and self-publishers), and going from ePub to Mobi with Calibre will always give you better results than going the other direction. Not that you have that option, I understand. In fact, my process is to always make the ePub first and move from there to Mobi/PRC to get best results in end files. No offense, but if you want to convert something that is already in it's final Mobi state to something else, you're never going to come up with the kind of results I get making a file from scratch and going through the logical steps from one format to the epub or mobi books. I used Vibosoft mobi to epub converter: this is the guide how to convert mobi file to epub format.
PS : Does iPad NOT still have the Kindle reader available? Or an old Mobi reader like Adobe Digital Editions or the really old direct Mobi reader? It might be better to read the books on your new equipment in their native format than to play with conversion.
Yeah, i agree with the solutions above, and i'd like to share my way with you here! If you want to transfer your ePub format to MOBI, you can either try Calibre or iPubsoft ePub to MOBI Converter! And if you want to realise the opposite function, view this guide here which tells you how to convert MOBI files to ePub, which i think is also very useful:
I have an entire book laid out in Indesign that I now need to convert to a MOBI file for Kindle readers. I'm finding this is an impossible task that I used to be able to do with my older versions of Indesign. Is there a plugin that I can use for CC that will do this for me? I'm also having a lot of difficulties getting a good EPUB file. All my fonts are squeezed together and my images in one chapter are showing up at the end of the chapter instead of in the text as they should.
I'm a little upset with Adobe for not having a way to contact them with questions. They were pretty good about chatting with me when I was trying to decide to subscribe to the Cloud version... yet I'm not getting much help at all with this new problem that I've spent two days trying to figure out. Does anyone have any suggestions?
This is not really so much Adobe's fault as it is Amazon's. You can try the Kindle Previewer app to convert to MOBI but the other issues you're talking about are impossible to diagnose without real details.
Thanks for the Reply. I'm using the most current version of InDesign CC on Windows 7. I downloaded Adobe Digital Edition to view my EPUB. I'm exporting to EPUB through Indesign Export to EPUB in the Book Menu. None of my fonts are showing correctly even though I checked Embed all fonts, and my images are showing up at the end of the chapter instead of where they belong with the text. It's all a mess.
I'm using InDesign CC (13.1 x64), running on Windows 7 Pro with Service Pack 1. Adobe Digital Editions Version 4.5.8.182857. Fonts are all open type, I can't figure out how to anchor the images and I believe I'm using the styles properly.
Changed my Paragraph Styles to have spaced before and after certain paragraphs so my quotes stand out like they do in the print book... and it still isn't working. Very unimpressed with Adobe right now. I'm not a newbie to working with book layout, but since I upgraded to CC it's been somewhat of a nightmare.
Hello Bob, I have a related question. I have been able to convert epub files to mobi in the past using Kindle Previewer, but now it gives me an error. This is a 300+ page novel with a fixed-layout epub. I am using Mac OS 10.15.1. The document was created in InDesign 15.
I tried downloading EBookConverter from the Apple store and it did the conversion, but when I open it in K. Previewer it has lost all its formatting. I have also tried converting it from a PDF file. Both work fine in Apple Books, but not on Kindle.
Hey guys/girls,I am in need of a script to turn my 100+ mobi files into epub.I am currently using stanza (mac) to convert each file one by one.I was wondering if someone could tell me how to do all of them at once. IE. A script that will do it for me. Time is not an issue. I just don't want to sit here and do it. I found a couple of sites that allow you to upload you file to them and they would give the epub format back to you. This is great except that they only allow one file at time as well. Sorry if this was not clear. English is not my first language. Thanks.
I would also suggest using Calibre. You can BULK convert mobi files to epub files. Going from mobi to epub can usually be done with just the default conversion settings in Calibre (going from PDF to epub, on the other hand, typically requires a bunch of fiddling around with settings and regex in order to get it to look okay in epub). As you have mobi files it's likely you'll have them converted in no time.
I am trying to convert my ebooks from epub format to mobi/azw3, in order to put them onto my Kindle App and Paperwhite. Everything works fine except the book covers don't show up in kindle app. There's no description also, so it's impossible to recognise which book I'm opening. I am using Calibre (osX) for the conversion.
Unfortunately, that's the default behavior, because the Kindle for PC/OSX app will only display covers for "personal documents," i.e. ePubs converted with Kindle Previewer/KindleGen, or books bought from Amazon.
AFAIK, Calibre adds a fake ASIN and changes other metadata items so that books no longer appear in the Personal Documents folder. However, this change also causes the book to be displayed without a cover in the Kindle for PC/OSX apps.
Hello, I have a question for help here, I have a lot of .mobi books on my computer, I wanna transfer these mobi books to my iPhone and iPad for reading, but I found they doesn't accept mobi format, I tried many ways to convert mobi to ePub but failed, the quality of the output ePub file is so bad, unable to read. pleae help! Is there any software can convert hundreds of .mobi files to ePub format with high quality? Don't give me calibre, it keep crashed in my windows 8, and the it is not easy to use, waste of my time.
And, what did I say? Asnlinkda askedhow to convert a mobi book into an epub book(not how to convert an epub in a mobi). I said him that he should use some thid party app (that produces epub books) and if it's necessary, to polish the resulting book mobi to ePub converter. I also say that he could use mobi to ePub converter but that I prefer to use the first method. So, I say that is preferable to use (if it were necessary)
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