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Old 12-07-2010, 01:55 PM   #3
Starson17
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Originally Posted by Manichean View Post
You won't get around creating a second entry for that book
He can't get around it if he wants direct access. When I want that, I do as you suggest, and store identical title, identical author versions, and tag them differently.

However, when I just want to store the "extra" formats together with the version I normally use I do it inside a compressed format, like zip, rar, etc.

The trick to doing this is to store the extras inside the compressed format as a non-ebook format - like a compressed format - so the "other" formats or duplicate formats are always compressed two levels deep. That prevents Calibre from being confused, as Calibre will otherwise try to unpack any first level compressed format.

IOW, I do it like this. Say I have several versions of a book that I want to store together with with my "reading copy" formats. I proceed as follows:

1) compress each individual format (right click and "Add to Archive")
2) select all the compressed formats and right click and "Add to Archive" again.
3) Add that final archive to Calibre.
4) I use RAR as my general purpose holding format and leave ZIP for HTML.
5) I leave RAR assigned to the RAR unpacker, so that clicking on the RAR, opens it to see the other files inside.


(An alternative to two level deep compression is to always have at least two ebook formats inside the RAR, but I was always forgetting to put in the second format.)
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