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Revision Notes

Editing Metadata, Title or Series, issue, path length:
Incorporated the prior revisions about series & title path length better there, and in Note Templates in Reading Books section.

Assessing Formats, issue, bulk convert prior to assessment:
Clarified with list of conversion settings (few and minimal) and some discussion.

Assessing Formats and Editing Metadata, issue, removing Original Formats:
Deleted all mention of removing Original Format from all sections except one (…I hope…). In Editing Metadata, in the paragraph labeled Formats, baldly stated the issue. For awhile in my real-life workflow I won't remove any Original Formats. And I'll evaluate (for me) the level of confusion from figuring out which format is best (or even which is the original format) versus the level of feeling-safer along with the level of utility for keeping the Original Format.

That confusion is demonstrated with this example. I add and process an Original Format, let's say it is a MOBI. Now I have EPUB (Preferred) and MOBI (Original). The EPUB was for initial assessment of the format quality of the Original MOBI, as well as generally keeping "masters" in EPUB. During the conversion from MOBI to EPUB some minimal conversion settings were applied, which I do for all books. Weeks/months/years later, I want to load the book to Kindle to read it. How do I know at a glance from booklist or book details pane which format is the best one to auto-convert (if necessary) and Send? Which of them is the Original Format? Which of them is the fixed format? I want to generate MOBIs on demand from EPUB for reading on Kindle. After reading, I want to delete the MOBI in the calibre library if it was generated from the EPUB master, but how do I know it's an Original Format I need to keep versus a temporary MOBI I don't need to keep which was generated months or years ago the first time I read it, followed by forgetting to delete the temporary MOBI from the calibre library after reading it…. (I often forget that.) ? ?? ???….

Am I missing something obvious?