ok, greg, i made a .mobi for "pride and prejudice".

just to remind you, here's the .zml plain-text file:
>   http://zenmagiclove.com/prapr/prapr.zml

and here's the (newly reworked) .html file:
>   http://zenmagiclove.com/prapr/prapr.html

and here's the .mobi file:
>   http://zenmagiclove.com/prapr/prapr.mobi

and here are the auxiliary files for that .mobi:
>   http://zenmagiclove.com/prapr/prapr.ncx
>   http://zenmagiclove.com/prapr/prapr.opf
>   http://zenmagiclove.com/prapr/prapr.jpg

copy these files where you like for the tournament.

but i assume that place will _not_ be here:
>   http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342

even though marcello's work for the tournament
-- i.e., the files generated from his .rst master --
are sitting in that place, at 4pm pacific daylight...

and while it is true that the original .html file
-- by david widger -- still shows on that page,
the "plain-text" file is _not_ the one from david.
it's the one from marcello's .rst file, which has
eliminated all mention of david widger's name,
at least as far as i see, your "policy" be damned.

***

as noted above, i reworked the .html file which
i had obtained initially out of my converter, to
customize the .html specifically for the kindle.

but that treats the symptom, not the problem.

so what i will do now is improve the converter,
so when it outputs its .html file for the kindle,
not just for this book, but other books as well,
that file will include the modifications i made.
that's how you do "incremental improvement."

here's the .html file from earlier:
>   http://zenmagiclove.com/prapr/prapr-old.html

and again, here's the reworked .html:
>   http://zenmagiclove.com/prapr/prapr.html

if you want, you can compare those two files,
to see what changes i had to make, although
it probably will not be that interesting to you.

but one note that you _might_ find interesting
is that these .html files are _html5_, and they
validate (if you remove the mobi pagebreaks).

another interesting observation is that -- even
though .mobi is a primitive format -- kindlegen
swallows this entire 888k .html file in one gulp,
unlike the .epub format, where you have to cut
the meat up into bite-sized 300k pieces so the
crippled viewer-apps can chew them properly...

-bowerbird