05-01-2011, 01:01 PM | #1 |
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Using only the coverting features of Calibre
Hi folks,
my apologies if this has been answered already, I couldn't find it. I dislike using programs to "manage" my media, be it iTunes for my music, or Picassa for my photos, I'm capable of doing it myself. On that note, I like the converting features of Calibre, but do not wish to use the library management functionality. Is there a way to do this? |
05-01-2011, 01:18 PM | #2 |
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Import to library, convert, export (save to disk), delete from library. Or use the command line tools (ebook-convert is the one you want).
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05-01-2011, 02:44 PM | #3 |
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I only used Calibre to convert, until very recently (about when some, for me, very important updates were done). My big friend was "ebook-convert". I actually hadn't looked beyond that for a long time. And for converting, I still never use the GUI, but only the command-line tool.
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05-02-2011, 12:03 AM | #4 |
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Though some user's choose to do it, the problem with ebook-convert from the command line is there are literally dozens of arguments that could/should be passed to it to do a proper conversion. The GUI does this automatically for the most part, whereas for the CLI you need to explore a lot of docs to find all the settings you'll need.
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05-02-2011, 03:27 AM | #5 | |
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05-02-2011, 03:42 AM | #6 | |
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Besides, I only use it to convert my LIT and MOBI files to HTML, so I can reformat that for my MOBI, EPUB and PDF files... |
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05-02-2011, 03:44 AM | #7 |
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The CLI is neither more nor less automated than the GUI, it's only that the GUI has some commonly used options pre-set.
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05-02-2011, 06:49 AM | #8 | |
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Time and again, I see users here, want to slam thousands of books through a Bulk convert and then complain loudly that they look like a Midden Heap . Each book (or series) deserves TLC in fine tuning the convert. Of course, nothing beats starting with a clean source |
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