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OK, I have some thoughts:
'Assessing Formats' - Bulk Convert to Preferred Format.
Seems a bit pointless to me. Pros - makes nice uniform library.
Cons - 1. Book that I fix today and feel happy about coloring headings purple may seem rather ghastly few years hence.
2. Any conversion may lose or add something (I'm presently reading a mobi book where there's no blank lines for the scene breakes, I doubt that they will appear after conversion. This particular book has such a twisted css that I must uglify very nice ePub in order to replace some code especially for the conversion to mobi. In this case I'll keep both nice formats).
3. When I don't read the book immediately, leaving original format be saves lot of time - just quick quality check is all.
4. By the time I get around to reading it, several things may have happened: I may have found better quality/preferred format; I may have gotten new reading device; my html skills will definitely increase.
5. Maybe next book in the series has different but nicer formatting, then I can change first one more easily, having an example.
Fixing Formats - Convert to Editable Format
IMHO converting anything html to word and back is not good practice. Editing for example ePub in Sigil is much more under control, it won't accept mistakes, and you can see right away the change (and maybe undo it).
Editing Metadata - Title
I prefer shorter title. Probably it's subconcious answer to Windows path length limit. A friend gave me his zipped library, and many books there were unextractable because the title was too long.
Maintenance -
Maybe warning about not to mess around directly in the Calibre folders should be capitalized?
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