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Originally Posted by unboggling
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.
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My solution (not very good, but working) to that is to keep everything in 'books' folder. When I decide to read something, I inspect available formats, import best one to Mobi Creator (or Calibre) and convert to mobi. While reading, I mark the typos and irritations, then check other files for the same mistakes. Often there are several formats with exact same text, but happens also that dubious places are more natural in another file.
Very rarely I may try new conversion from another format, usually it's just massage the html > create prc to check if last improvement took.
Also, during reading I can find tendencies like for example </i><i> instead of space. If such things look like continuing throughout the whole book, I search and replace them, make new prc and continue reading that.
After reading I keep original pdf/doc/html I converted from, opf+edited html+picture(s) and final prc. If converted from epub, I may keep one nice-looking pdf also. Everything else goes to the trash.
Sometimes during that process I add it to the Calibre. Original format usually before I start to read, with metadata search (have to be sure about series and reading order), final prc when I finish reading it.
I can't really imagine more naked format than html. If I can get my claws into that, I can tweak anything in the book (or learn to tweak). And I believe it will convert less painlessly into some future format (more likely, noname readers will accept several formats). Now I try to download only epub or mobi.
I do not have good experience with lrf/lit conversion. And if I can't get acceptable html now, then I doubt there will be better results converting into some future super-duper format. Of course could have been lousy lit/lrf.
@kiwidude - I must disagree, I remember being very interested in 'why'. Especially new user needs to know why somebody does things, in my opinion it makes a lot easier to decide 'no, not for me, don't need to know how'.