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well back to epub versioning then.
this is what I like to do:
epub to epub convert after adding a book to acheive 2 or 3 things:
1. apply my preferred standardised extra css,
2. allow alf's plug in to do it's thing.
3 create a dont-call-it-an-archive.original_epub.
Then I turn to sigil usually and zap anything thats not part of the main story - like now read on for 2 chapters of something completely different - so that the book ends at end of main story and the the page count reflects that. ( if its non fiction, then zap unwanted indexes, bibliography... )
Finally, I use modify epub & count pages as a final tidy up + add a better cover if needed etc...
Now I have a personal reading copy good to go...
BUT until I actually get through reading the entire story, there is always the faint chance that I zapped a page that I shoudl have kept!, so I really do want to have the original_epub still lying around just in case. AND, if I for some reason want to read on kindle instead, I want to get my edited version converted from epub to mobi.
So its really frustrating that i have to choose one of those options & lose the other.
My workflow is seemingly unique, no-one else seems to want or need this so I accept it's not going to happen.
we've established several ways to archive the original books but there's no obvious slick way to restore an original_epub into the calibre database except by one at a time, multi-step manual methods.
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