[DMcCunney]

Am I missing the obvious, or do I have a feature request?

I have the current version of Calibre, with about 5,500 books in the library. I have books in a variety of formats, and in some cases I have the same title in more than one format.

I recently acquired an Android tablet, and I've been sending books to it via Calibre. I read the books via FBReaderJ, which gets the nod because it handles both ePub and Mobi formats, and saves me from having to do format conversions. PDFs are read with MuPDF, an open source Android PDF viewer, but while the PDFs are in Calibre's library, I don't use Calibre to place them on the device: the place I tell Calibre to put eBooks is not the location where I store PDFs and told MuPDF to look.

Because of the multiple formats, I've been using Calibre's "Send specific format to device" command. By default, I send ePub, with the intent to send Mobi in another pass if the file isn't in ePub format. The problem is, if there isn't an ePub format copy of the book, but there is another format Calibre thinks it can convert to ePub, it tries to convert and then send the ePub conversion. I don't want it to do that. I want it to send ePub if there is one and do nothing if not.

Is there a configuration choice I haven't found that controls that behavior?

Ideally, I'd like to select a list of titles to place on device, and tell it "If there is an ePub version, send it. If there is no ePub version, but there is a Mobi version, send that. It there is neither an ePub nor a Mobi version, send a message that no selected format exists for that title, and go on to the next one."

That may be a feature request. I'll settle for knowing how to prevent Calibre from trying to convert a different format if the one I specified doesn't exist.

Thanks in advance,
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Dennis