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@travger - it is less of a problem if you only have one unique variation of a format - e.g. an RTF and an EPUB. The real problem is when your two variations are of the same format - e.g. two EPUB of the same book. What do you do then? Either you have to have duplicate book entries (so your Calibre library starts to degrade quickly in quality, usability and performance) or you have to decide on only one to keep, which you can only do by visual inspection, which is very time consuming.
So if I am going to be spending the time opening book formats to compare and decide a winner, I don't want to have to do it yet again down the track to compare with other formats when I come to cleanup the book. Hence I only do it "once" at the time I pick a format to add to Calibre.
As for seeing what books I have - it is just as easy to type in my search box in windows explorer "name:xxx" as it is to do a lookup in Calibre. Of course I would love it if every book I had was in Calibre, but I've resigned myself to only having the books I really care about/intend to read in there instead.
Everyone has their own way - I am another who cannot bear to read from .txt converted books but whatever you are happy reading with then go for it.
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