Thread: is there any way to time out a conversion?
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Old 07-31-2011, 10:25 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by DarkRose View Post
This happened to me earlier today, set up to batch convert 6 books, came back half an hour later to an overheated laggy laptop that hadn't even done the first conversion yet...

I was converting Lit to Mobi if that makes any difference.
Some books take a long time to convert. The odds are any book that takes longer than 20 minutes started its life in MS Word (like your lit file) and has 10s of thousands of lines of css / @font face stuff that it is sorting out.

Either let your machine run the 1 to 24 hours needed to complete the conversion (my longest was 6 hours) or set the book aside and look for a new source for that book.
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