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Old 06-08-2013, 10:15 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
You can certainly keep a portable install around and point it to the same library if you want to use the plugin for docx. calibre's db format has not changed in years, so it should be safe. That said, keep an eye on the changelog to see if there are any db format changes. If you want to be absolutely secure you should probably write a bat script that does the conversions using the portable install and updates the epubs in place in the main library.
Excellent - I'm not sure if I already knew that PI's are available from the ebook-convert command - but I do now, just read the manual.

Can, and more importantly should I run bat files that invoke portable CLI programs whilst the installed GUI is running against the same database.

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