Thread: Tolstoy's War and Peace... I just became scared out of my mind
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Old 09-23-2013, 01:04 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by pendragginp View Post
Question I have to ask - why is it important to you to count pages over and over instead of using the time to read? You have a bit of a mathematical mind?
The differing page count was just a quirk I happened upon, and I can't let that be without knowning why it happens that way. That's just me.

And if you want to know how I found out about that quirk:

Spoiler:
It's because I'm rebuilding my e-book library from scratch, and I want the EPUB files I use for it as a basis to be formatted and tagged correctly, without having to depend on Calibre's database.

The only Calibre-specific info I'm saving inside these files now are the series and series_index tags/metadata, so I can rebuild the basis of my library (including series and indexes) by just importing those files if I ever need to, while a program that does not use these Calibre tags will just ignore them.

All additional work such as the Hyphenate This plugin, Count Pages, adding extra tags and so on will be done in Calibre only. I keep the base files seperately in case I ever need them in another program, somehwere down the line.

I did something similar with my music library, re-ripping and re-tagging everything in FLAC format, so it is open source and lossless.

I for one wouldn't be surprised if I need (or want) all of those files to do conversions in the future, maybe more than once in the coming decades, and I want my base format as perfect as possible.

Now that I'm almost done rebuilding, and have a good workflow, I can tag, clean, export and then format new files within minutes (I use a seperate Calibre library for this). I stash those away, and import them into my main Calibre database.
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