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kovidgoyal · 10-08-2014, 11:52 AM

Sigh, let me join the dots and fill it up with nice pretty colors for you:

original_FMT is designed to always be used as a conversion source in preference to FMT, whenever it is present. This is regardless of the output format or the input format.

It is designed this way to ensure that FMT to FMT conversions can be repeated using the original file. It also has the same effect even when doing FMT to OTHER_FMT conversions, because not do so, would be a crazy, inconsistent mess.

So when you convert a book containing ORIGINAL_EPUB and EPUB to AZW3 it will use ORIGINAL_EPUB as the source. That is by design, and for the last time is not going to change.

So stop using ORIGINAL_EPUB as a backup mechanism.

10-08-2014, 11:52 AM	#11
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,445 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Sigh, let me join the dots and fill it up with nice pretty colors for you: original_FMT is designed to always be used as a conversion source in preference to FMT, whenever it is present. This is regardless of the output format or the input format. It is designed this way to ensure that FMT to FMT conversions can be repeated using the original file. It also has the same effect even when doing FMT to OTHER_FMT conversions, because not do so, would be a crazy, inconsistent mess. So when you convert a book containing ORIGINAL_EPUB and EPUB to AZW3 it will use ORIGINAL_EPUB as the source. That is by design, and for the last time is not going to change. So stop using ORIGINAL_EPUB as a backup mechanism.