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Originally Posted by johnb0647
My family has 3 eBookWise 1150's and 9000 books in many formats. Calibre is letting me organize and remove duplicates BUT....
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I *think* I know what you are trying to do. Let me give it back to you, then give a solution.
You have books in multiple formats. Some, like 'epub', calibre knows about. Some like 'imp', calibre does not know about. You want to store both kinds in calibre's library. Further, you want to manipulate the unknown formats using an external program.
Calibre can store any kind of file you want with a book. There are two situations: you have the book in a supported format, and you don't.
In the first case, add the supported format to calibre normally, using add books. In the second case, add an empty book. In both cases, clean up the metadata and what-have-you.
Now, using the edit metadata dialog, add the unsupported format to the book. This is done using the book with a '+' on it, upper right. Change the file selector to 'all files *.*', navigate to where the unsupported format file is, select it, and add it. Press OK to quit editing metadata.
At this point you will see your format (imp?) in the list of formats mentioned by speakingtohe. You can search for them, etc. What remains is to be able to work on them to do your conversions or what-have-you. Two choices:
1) Use save to disk to retrieve all the formats and store them somewhere. Your 'imp' file will be saved along with the other formats the book has.
2) Use 'open containing folder' to get to where the 'imp' is stored, and copy that file to a folder outside the library.
Now do what you want to do. If you convert the imp to a new format, then use 'Add Format' again to put that format into calibre's library. If you modify the 'imp', then use edit metadata to remove the old 'imp' and re-add the new version.
Let me know if I have what you want to do wrong, and we can try again.