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Originally Posted by kiwidude
As for the formats thing … keeping say an ePub and a LIT format of a book will always leave a question in your mind as to which version is the "better" one if they were not converted from the same source. Which you can only resolve by inspecting. Better imho to do that job once, make your decision (converting the LIT to overwrite the ePub if it wins) and move on.
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@kiwidude, you're right. I've experienced that question in my mind. So I need to decide whether the chance of keeping any of the others is worth it. The Baen CD HTML v's seem tailored for full size browser use (without having inspected them much and without knowing much HTML yet), so they along with the other dead-dodo formats probably aren't useful except for other reasons such as learning some HTML or messing with a LIT to learn how it's put together. Which aren't essential reasons to keep them, vs the confusion they generate later.
I think I want to start deleting everything except the format I put in calibre and sometimes cleanup. But that raises the question of when to delete those other formats. If I don't clean it right away, I might want to refer to one of those other formats in the future when I do clean the one in calibre or even use it instead if I find a big problem while cleaning. So then there's the mechanical question of how do I automatically remember things need to be deleted if I don't delete them right away at Add time? It would have to be at Clean time. But Clean time doesn't apply to all books.
btw, a couple hours ago I put reference and links to your workflow and metadata bigposts into 0.60 after posting, using an ((Edit date)) marker. I'd integrated some of your ideas already and am still thinking about other stuff in those posts that's not integrated into my workflow yet.