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Originally Posted by kacir
I have found one aspect of the program very slow. Conversion process. When I start conversion of a *.lit book, the process takes many minutes. Kovid told me that this is normal, and that his convertor does more things than other convertors, so I simply started to use an external program lit2epub, which is free and lightning fast. No problem here. I only wish I could tell Calibre to use lit2epub convertor for converting from lit to epub instead of the default one (which is a stand-alone program anyway).
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I have found this seems to depend on the quality of the LIT file. On my system (2ghz single-core) the vast majority convert in under a minute. The ones that take longer are almost invariably ones that have been converted from other formats and that (on closer examination) contain lots of spurious tags at the HTML level. This seems to be getting better as time goes by as these problematical LIT files are becoming rarer, or are available as HTML format as well which nearly always converts faster and with better results.