Thanks all for the suggestions. I didn't know about Acrobat, and hadn't he=
ard
that, but will check if I can. Sometimes functions aren't quite as function=
al
as marketing would have one believe. ;)  I've been so open source that it w=
ould
pain me to have that be the only solution.

I did follow the kindle conversion link and learned more about Calibre.
Interesting program. It actually took the first index page and compiled all=
 the
others into a .mobi file. However, it isn't perfect. For small simple thing=
s,
it would be great. I tried rtf out and text out. The resulting rtf isn't
readable even by its own reader, nor Windows Wordpad, FBreader, or Open Off=
ice
(only file I've ever seen crash Open Office). There may be a path through
editing the text file and setting up the automatic chapter features in Cali=
bre.
The pieces seem to be there, but the finish line isn't in view... I like th=
e
fact that it utilizes multiple cores in its processing, but an 8MB output f=
ile
takes 12 hours to complete on a 2-core Athalon. The cooling fan is getting
exercise too!

I don't have the pre-html files, and some of the total docs can be 1000 htm=
l
pages (each small). Any sort of manual editing, cut and paste, etc. are
probably out, as is mailing to Gmail, although that one may serve in the fu=
ture
on other things. I wish I remembered more Perl, but in looking at the sourc=
e of
the pages, I'm not sure how long it would take to get it right and not omit
something or munge it. Proofreading 1000 'pages' over and over again to loo=
k
for errors my Perl code would make is just as bad right now.

The key piece, even with Calibre, is something that will just take a conten=
ts
page and form a single file of all the links, 1 level down. I've found an
undocumented feature to the kindle that if one renames an html file to .txt=
,
it'll read it (and the external links will work too). I think if I give Cal=
ibre
a simple 1-file html doc, it might reliably make a mobi file that looks
reasonable. It's funny, it takes the contents page and all the links and zi=
ps
them up together as the source, then makes a single output file from it, bu=
t it
doesn't offer an output format as HTML. Even if you use a mobi or other as
source, it looks like it converts it to html as an intermediate step, but
doesn't offer that as a final form. So close....

Still working on it, so if there are any other ideas on this, like tricking
Calibre into submission, another tool (including Perl that already works to=
 do
this), or similar, please write. Thanks again.

-Skip





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