First attempt at converting Koha manual from DocBook to ePub and mobi formats

*** Disclaimer

This is experimental work in progress. You load the provided files on your favourite device
at your own risk! 

*** ePub

sudo apt-get install dbtoepub

cd ~/scripts/

git clone git://git.koha-community.org/kohadocs.git

cd ~/scripts/kohaebook

dbtoepub -o manual.epub ~/scripts/kohadocs/en/manual.xml

The first time I ran this it errored out because of a space in an image filename. I have submitted a patch for this. 

I have not tested manual.epub on any device. 

*** mobi with kindlegen

Installed kindlegen from http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000234621 to ~/bin/kindlegen/

Running this:

~/bin/kindlegen/kindlegen manual.epub -c0 -o manual.mobi

resuted in a lot of warnings and some errors:

[...]
Warning(prcgen): Hyperlink not resolved:  /tmp/fileQQhp0g/OEBPS/ch01.html#PrintNoticesMaxLines
Warning(prcgen): Hyperlink not resolved:  /tmp/fileQQhp0g/OEBPS/ch15.html#cleandbcron
Warning(prcgen): Hyperlink not resolved:  /tmp/fileQQhp0g/OEBPS/ch15.html#keywordclouds
Warning(prcgen): Some hyperlinks could not be resolved.
Info(prcgen): Building table of content     URL: /tmp/fileQQhp0g/OEBPS/toc.ncx
Error(prcgen): The root <ncx> tag not found.
Error(prcgen): The table of content could not be built.

*** mobi with calibre

sudo apt-get install calibre

Open manual.epub in calibre, convert to mobi with the Kindle profile. 

Tested on a 3rd generation Kindle this seems to have worked. The most obvious problem is that bulleted points are not 
properly formatted - the bullets are displayed above the related text. 

I was not able to download the manual.mobi file to the Kindle with the built in browser, but connecting the Kindle to a PC
with USB and loading the file worked fine. Might be related to how the MIME-type the .mobi file is served with?

*** Inspiration

http://kanru.info/blog/archives/2010/11/18/convert-texinfo-to-mobi/