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Originally Posted by eschwartz
ORIGINAL_EPUB is not meant for archival purposes. It is meant as backup to revert conversions gone horribly wrong.
I am sure Kovid has already explained this.
It is unreasonable to expect a feature to be changed for the sake of something it was never intended to be.
You properly want an ebook versioning program. calibre is not that, and I don't think Kovid cares in the slightest about making it one. It certainly isn't worth HIS time.
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yes he has explained that, but what's wrong with wanting a backup of my epub conversion AND a conversion ( to mobi ) of my current epub version.
I don't want or need another library/ another versioning program, I just want the ability to convert a from a current format (epub) into another format (mobi) and not be forced to always convert from the
whatever-you-want-to-call-it.epub file
debating whether to call it a
backup or an
archive or some other name misses the point.
( AFAIK, when Kovid first introduced the feature, it was called a backup. I am fine with that.)
The design as is makes is not possible to use calibre as a single library which can serve current versions to both epub and mobi readers, unless we agree to turn off the
backup to revert conversions gone horribly wrong
and since it is not possible to edit mobi directly, it makes sense to edit in epub & then want to send edited epub ( as mobi) to kindle AND still be able to fall back to original-epub if things go horribly wrong somewhere in that sequence . where's the illogic in wanting that feature.
All the workarounds are horrid. I need to either devise an incremental backup & restore workflow for writing out original_epubs to somewhere else, & re-importing them as needed. or I have to use an additional calibre library and always go copy epub in library 1 to epub in library 2 ( copy single format only, leave original_epub behind ) then convert epub in library 2 to mobi then send that to kindle i.e. i have to operate an epub+original library for my epub reader(s) AND an epub+ mobi library for any Kindles - crazy.
In both cases, I then have to redo my calibre library backup processes to take care of needing backups of all this extra stuff.