RE: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Hi, David and all. Both Epub and mobi files come with and without copy protection. For example, Smashwords.com sells unprotected epub and mobi files, Kobo sells copy-protected epub, and Amazon sells protected mobi generally, some publishers choose to sell without protection. The point is that there are two stages to any conversion, to remove the copy protection, if that is necessary, and to convert the file type. What John is speaking of, renaming the file from .mobi to .epub can only apply to the second stage. All the testing I speak of below was done on files without copy protection. Even here, though, with the readers I tried, renaming did not work, which is why I asked John to let us know of the readers he was using. I hope that's of use. Aman From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:50 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone It cannot be done because of copy protection. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 13/12/2012, at 12:13, Aman Singer aman.sin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, John and All. I'm sorry if this comes through twice or if the formatting is odd. If I may ask, what readers have you used, John? I am a bit surprised to hear what you say below, as I understood that Mobi and Epub were entirely different containers, though both use HTML/XHTML for their text. Epub is a zip file, basically, while Mobi is a .PRC Palm Pilot file. However that may be, I would be overjoyed if simple renaming would work, it would save tons of headaches, particularly on mobile platforms like the iDevices. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get this to work on any of the three readers I have here. With Ibooks, Blio, and Nook, the reader simply refuses to load the renamed file. It's as if the file isn't there. There is no error, but the file, when I attempt to load it, simply disappears and is not visible in the list of books in either application. When using the file with Epub readers on the PC, particularly Kurzweil 1000 and Digital Editions, the file is not opened and I do get an error saying that the file is not in the correct format. If you would let us know which reader can do this, particularly if it's for mobile, it would be appreciated. Aman Jon Pierson wrote: Hi Teresa, I didn't see anything wrong with your post. As far as I can tell we were all trying to make it easier for people to get content into their various iDevices. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Ok. :) I'm not trying to open a can of worms, though I seem to do it all the time without trying. :) Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Oh, now dRM's a different animal entirely. I was just talking about vanilla .mobi files renamed to .epub and working fine in most readers I've tried. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:39 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Are you talking about DRM? Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hello. I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. It is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of conversion
RE: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Hi, I just grabbed another .mobi file, renamed it to .epub and opened it in Stanza. It also works in the VR-Stream but I haven't tried it on the Book Sense yet. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 7:02 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hi, David and all. Both Epub and mobi files come with and without copy protection. For example, Smashwords.com sells unprotected epub and mobi files, Kobo sells copy-protected epub, and Amazon sells protected mobi generally, some publishers choose to sell without protection. The point is that there are two stages to any conversion, to remove the copy protection, if that is necessary, and to convert the file type. What John is speaking of, renaming the file from .mobi to .epub can only apply to the second stage. All the testing I speak of below was done on files without copy protection. Even here, though, with the readers I tried, renaming did not work, which is why I asked John to let us know of the readers he was using. I hope that's of use. Aman From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:50 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone It cannot be done because of copy protection. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 13/12/2012, at 12:13, Aman Singer aman.sin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, John and All. I'm sorry if this comes through twice or if the formatting is odd. If I may ask, what readers have you used, John? I am a bit surprised to hear what you say below, as I understood that Mobi and Epub were entirely different containers, though both use HTML/XHTML for their text. Epub is a zip file, basically, while Mobi is a .PRC Palm Pilot file. However that may be, I would be overjoyed if simple renaming would work, it would save tons of headaches, particularly on mobile platforms like the iDevices. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get this to work on any of the three readers I have here. With Ibooks, Blio, and Nook, the reader simply refuses to load the renamed file. It's as if the file isn't there. There is no error, but the file, when I attempt to load it, simply disappears and is not visible in the list of books in either application. When using the file with Epub readers on the PC, particularly Kurzweil 1000 and Digital Editions, the file is not opened and I do get an error saying that the file is not in the correct format. If you would let us know which reader can do this, particularly if it's for mobile, it would be appreciated. Aman Jon Pierson wrote: Hi Teresa, I didn't see anything wrong with your post. As far as I can tell we were all trying to make it easier for people to get content into their various iDevices. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Ok. :) I'm not trying to open a can of worms, though I seem to do it all the time without trying. :) Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Oh, now dRM's a different animal entirely. I was just talking about vanilla .mobi files renamed to .epub and working fine in most readers I've tried. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:39 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Are you talking about DRM? Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your
RE: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Hello, Jon. Thanks for the information. I am able to open the renamed .mobi file in Stanza without an error on the iPhone, but is Stanza usable on the iPhone? I can read the list of books, but whenever I open a book, voiceover seems to indicate that there is nothing on the screen except a space character. That is, whether the file is a standard epub or a renamed mobi, the result seems to be the same, but that result is bad. If you'd let me know how Stanza is used, I'd appreciate it. A search of Applevis doesn't produce anything about Stanza for iOS, just Stanza for OSX. Aman -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jon Pierson Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:58 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hi, I just grabbed another .mobi file, renamed it to .epub and opened it in Stanza. It also works in the VR-Stream but I haven't tried it on the Book Sense yet. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 7:02 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hi, David and all. Both Epub and mobi files come with and without copy protection. For example, Smashwords.com sells unprotected epub and mobi files, Kobo sells copy-protected epub, and Amazon sells protected mobi generally, some publishers choose to sell without protection. The point is that there are two stages to any conversion, to remove the copy protection, if that is necessary, and to convert the file type. What John is speaking of, renaming the file from .mobi to .epub can only apply to the second stage. All the testing I speak of below was done on files without copy protection. Even here, though, with the readers I tried, renaming did not work, which is why I asked John to let us know of the readers he was using. I hope that's of use. Aman From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:50 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone It cannot be done because of copy protection. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 13/12/2012, at 12:13, Aman Singer aman.sin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, John and All. I'm sorry if this comes through twice or if the formatting is odd. If I may ask, what readers have you used, John? I am a bit surprised to hear what you say below, as I understood that Mobi and Epub were entirely different containers, though both use HTML/XHTML for their text. Epub is a zip file, basically, while Mobi is a .PRC Palm Pilot file. However that may be, I would be overjoyed if simple renaming would work, it would save tons of headaches, particularly on mobile platforms like the iDevices. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get this to work on any of the three readers I have here. With Ibooks, Blio, and Nook, the reader simply refuses to load the renamed file. It's as if the file isn't there. There is no error, but the file, when I attempt to load it, simply disappears and is not visible in the list of books in either application. When using the file with Epub readers on the PC, particularly Kurzweil 1000 and Digital Editions, the file is not opened and I do get an error saying that the file is not in the correct format. If you would let us know which reader can do this, particularly if it's for mobile, it would be appreciated. Aman Jon Pierson wrote: Hi Teresa, I didn't see anything wrong with your post. As far as I can tell we were all trying to make it easier for people to get content into their various iDevices. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Ok. :) I'm not trying to open a can of worms, though I seem to do it all the time without trying. :) Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Oh, now dRM's a different animal entirely. I was just talking about vanilla .mobi files renamed to .epub and working fine in most readers I've tried. Jon - Have you ever had
Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Hi, John and All. I'm sorry if this comes through twice or if the formatting is odd. If I may ask, what readers have you used, John? I am a bit surprised to hear what you say below, as I understood that Mobi and Epub were entirely different containers, though both use HTML/XHTML for their text. Epub is a zip file, basically, while Mobi is a .PRC Palm Pilot file. However that may be, I would be overjoyed if simple renaming would work, it would save tons of headaches, particularly on mobile platforms like the iDevices. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get this to work on any of the three readers I have here. With Ibooks, Blio, and Nook, the reader simply refuses to load the renamed file. It's as if the file isn't there. There is no error, but the file, when I attempt to load it, simply disappears and is not visible in the list of books in either application. When using the file with Epub readers on the PC, particularly Kurzweil 1000 and Digital Editions, the file is not opened and I do get an error saying that the file is not in the correct format. If you would let us know which reader can do this, particularly if it's for mobile, it would be appreciated. Aman Jon Pierson wrote: Hi Teresa, I didn't see anything wrong with your post. As far as I can tell we were all trying to make it easier for people to get content into their various iDevices. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Ok. :) I'm not trying to open a can of worms, though I seem to do it all the time without trying. :) Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Oh, now dRM's a different animal entirely. I was just talking about vanilla .mobi files renamed to .epub and working fine in most readers I've tried. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:39 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Are you talking about DRM? Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hello. I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. It is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of conversion which I've seen is through caliber. Try http://calibre-ebook.com/ and the manual for accessible conversions through Calibre is at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html I hope that's of use. Aman On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Wil James w...@wilanddenise.com wrote: I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently accumulated a bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make them viewable in iBooks? Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S -- E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com Twitter: wiljames zellow: wilcjames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search
Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Hi, John. If I may ask, what readers have you used? I am a bit surprised to hear what you say below, as I understood that Mobi and Epub were entirely different containers, though both use HTML/XHTML for their text. Epub is a zip file, basically, while Mobi is a .PRC Palm Pilot file. However that may be, I would be overjoyed if simple renaming would work, it would save tons of headaches, particularly on mobile platforms like the iDevices. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get this to work on any of the three readers I have here. With Ibooks, Blio, and Nook, the reader simply refuses to load the renamed file. It's as if the file isn't there. There is no error, but the file, when I attempt to load it, simply disappears and is not visible in the list of books in either application. When using the file with Epub readers on the PC, particularly Kurzweil 1000 and Digital Editions, the file is not opened and I do get an error saying that the file is not in the correct format. If you would let us know which reader can do this, particularly if it's for mobile, it would be appreciated. Aman On 12/11/12, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hello. I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. It is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of conversion which I've seen is through caliber. Try http://calibre-ebook.com/ and the manual for accessible conversions through Calibre is at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html I hope that's of use. Aman On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Wil James w...@wilanddenise.com wrote: I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently accumulated a bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make them viewable in iBooks? Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S -- E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com Twitter: wiljames zellow: wilcjames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
It cannot be done because of copy protection. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 13/12/2012, at 12:13, Aman Singer aman.sin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, John and All. I'm sorry if this comes through twice or if the formatting is odd. If I may ask, what readers have you used, John? I am a bit surprised to hear what you say below, as I understood that Mobi and Epub were entirely different containers, though both use HTML/XHTML for their text. Epub is a zip file, basically, while Mobi is a .PRC Palm Pilot file. However that may be, I would be overjoyed if simple renaming would work, it would save tons of headaches, particularly on mobile platforms like the iDevices. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to get this to work on any of the three readers I have here. With Ibooks, Blio, and Nook, the reader simply refuses to load the renamed file. It's as if the file isn't there. There is no error, but the file, when I attempt to load it, simply disappears and is not visible in the list of books in either application. When using the file with Epub readers on the PC, particularly Kurzweil 1000 and Digital Editions, the file is not opened and I do get an error saying that the file is not in the correct format. If you would let us know which reader can do this, particularly if it's for mobile, it would be appreciated. Aman Jon Pierson wrote: Hi Teresa, I didn't see anything wrong with your post. As far as I can tell we were all trying to make it easier for people to get content into their various iDevices. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Ok. :) I'm not trying to open a can of worms, though I seem to do it all the time without trying. :) Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Oh, now dRM's a different animal entirely. I was just talking about vanilla .mobi files renamed to .epub and working fine in most readers I've tried. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:39 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Are you talking about DRM? Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hello. I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. It is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of conversion which I've seen is through caliber. Try http://calibre-ebook.com/ and the manual for accessible conversions through Calibre is at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html I hope that's of use. Aman On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Wil James w...@wilanddenise.com wrote: I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently accumulated a bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make them viewable in iBooks? Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S -- E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com Twitter: wiljames zellow: wilcjames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more
Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Hello. I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. It is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of conversion which I've seen is through caliber. Try http://calibre-ebook.com/ and the manual for accessible conversions through Calibre is at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html I hope that's of use. Aman On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Wil James w...@wilanddenise.com wrote: I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently accumulated a bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make them viewable in iBooks? Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S -- E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com Twitter: wiljames zellow: wilcjames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Hi, I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hello. I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. It is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of conversion which I've seen is through caliber. Try http://calibre-ebook.com/ and the manual for accessible conversions through Calibre is at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html I hope that's of use. Aman On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Wil James w...@wilanddenise.com wrote: I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently accumulated a bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make them viewable in iBooks? Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S -- E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com Twitter: wiljames zellow: wilcjames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Are you talking about DRM? Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hello. I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. It is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of conversion which I've seen is through caliber. Try http://calibre-ebook.com/ and the manual for accessible conversions through Calibre is at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html I hope that's of use. Aman On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Wil James w...@wilanddenise.com wrote: I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently accumulated a bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make them viewable in iBooks? Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S -- E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com Twitter: wiljames zellow: wilcjames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Hi, Oh, now dRM's a different animal entirely. I was just talking about vanilla .mobi files renamed to .epub and working fine in most readers I've tried. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:39 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Are you talking about DRM? Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hello. I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. It is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of conversion which I've seen is through caliber. Try http://calibre-ebook.com/ and the manual for accessible conversions through Calibre is at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html I hope that's of use. Aman On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Wil James w...@wilanddenise.com wrote: I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently accumulated a bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make them viewable in iBooks? Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S -- E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com Twitter: wiljames zellow: wilcjames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Ok. :) I'm not trying to open a can of worms, though I seem to do it all the time without trying. :) Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Oh, now dRM's a different animal entirely. I was just talking about vanilla .mobi files renamed to .epub and working fine in most readers I've tried. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:39 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Are you talking about DRM? Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hello. I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. It is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of conversion which I've seen is through caliber. Try http://calibre-ebook.com/ and the manual for accessible conversions through Calibre is at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html I hope that's of use. Aman On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Wil James w...@wilanddenise.com wrote: I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently accumulated a bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make them viewable in iBooks? Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S -- E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com Twitter: wiljames zellow: wilcjames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group
RE: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
Hi Teresa, I didn't see anything wrong with your post. As far as I can tell we were all trying to make it easier for people to get content into their various iDevices. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:45 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Ok. :) I'm not trying to open a can of worms, though I seem to do it all the time without trying. :) Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Oh, now dRM's a different animal entirely. I was just talking about vanilla .mobi files renamed to .epub and working fine in most readers I've tried. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 8:39 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Are you talking about DRM? Teresa We're made of star-stuff.--Carl Sagan On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Jon Pierson joncpier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have had good luck just renaming the .mobi files to .epub. If it doesn't work in all cases, I haven't seen a bad file yet doing this. Jon - Have you ever had a technical issue with JFW that went unanswered? Or is your pet peave that one bug from years ago which has just never been squashed? Sign the Jaws bugfix petition at: http://hkc.im/Vu -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 8:47 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Reading .mobi files on the iPhone Hello. I know of no utility that will let you accessibly read mobi files on iOs. It is, however, easily possible to convert mobi files to epub which can, of course, be read in iBooks. The quickest and most private method of conversion which I've seen is through caliber. Try http://calibre-ebook.com/ and the manual for accessible conversions through Calibre is at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/ebook-convert.html I hope that's of use. Aman On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Wil James w...@wilanddenise.com wrote: I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently accumulated a bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make them viewable in iBooks? Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S -- E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com Twitter: wiljames zellow: wilcjames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google
Reading .mobi files on the iPhone
I am loving reading .epub files with iBooks. I've recently accumulated a bunch of .mobi files, but cannot find an app that will let me view them. Does anyone know of some kind of conversion utility that will make them viewable in iBooks? Sent from Wil's iPhone 4S -- E-mail or iMessage: w...@wilanddenise.com Twitter: wiljames zellow: wilcjames -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
