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Old 10-23-2011, 02:21 PM   #8
tosh
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If you open an ebook with calibre's E-book viewer, then no... there is no automatic import of any kind. You're just opening/viewing the ebook from wherever the file is in your filesystem.

not on my system (osx.7.2), no.
when i dbl-click on, say, an epub, calibre opens showing a progress bar, saying 'adding...'.
it puts an identical copy of the epub-file into calibre's library.


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If you want to get your ebooks into a format that is easily editable, then epub is probably what you're looking for (or HTML) rather than PDF.
can you recommend a tool for this?

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Even if you get everything edited exactly how you want it in the PDF document, you're going to be frustrated with the results (with whatever program you use) when you try to convert that perfect PDF back into one of the standard (epub, mobi) ebook formats.
I'm sure you're right about that :/

Last edited by tosh; 10-23-2011 at 02:23 PM.
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