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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Calibre has a few annoyances. It wants to be my master ebook tool and maintainer of my ebook library, which is not what I want to use it for.
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You can run Calibre without the GUI and never add any books to its database. It's written to allow almost all functions to run from command line. This includes book format conversion.
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So before I can convert an ebook, I must add it to Calibre's library, which can be a time consuming process. (And space consuming - my ebooks directory occupies about 18.3GB, including source files, conversions, and other things for about 4,000 ebook volumes. Calibre wants to add any ebooks it manages to it's own hierarchy. I don't want to think about how long it would take or what the resulting space requirements would be if I told Calibre to index it.
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No, you are not required to add books to Calibre before converting them, nor do you have to let Calibre manage them. Personally, I can't live without the management and search functions, but it's certainly possible to run conversion from the command line.