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Originally Posted by Alanw888
Should I just give up or hang in...
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A long time ago I was complaining (*) that conversion from lit to epub or other formats takes waaaay too long for my taste. The author of software Kovid Goyal has explained patiently, that the convertor does a *lot* of things with a book during conversion, besides the obvious unpacking html data and repacking it in a slightly different format. All that is done using interpreted language - Python. I was told that they are not going to work on speeding up the conversion at that moment. (There are many features that are more important for users that need to be done first). By the way ... that Python bit is very important, because it allows us to have Calibre on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, all running from one development source. And for me, the availability in Linux is much more important than speed of conversion. The use of Python also facilitates lots of very powerful features, such as using Regular Expressions for quite a few things.
So I have installed lit2epub package for my Linux distribution and I use that for converting lits. Convertlit [that lit2epub uses] takes seconds to convert a lit file to a format good-enough-for-me. I use Calibre for the other one thousand and one things that it does extremely well.
So, if you can, wait for the result.
If you need to convert lots of books, look around for other software for conversion.
(*) or, to say it more diplomatically, I was asking something "Am I doing this the way it is supposed to be done? Am I missing something obvious?"