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Originally Posted by VeryWellAged
Many thanks!
It seems to be working. But is seems so fast compared to the speed of the individual convert in Calibre that I am really surprised.
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VeryWellAged - Doesn't surprise me.
I suspect the bulk of the work would be in converting the DOCX to EPUB (which is essentially XML to HTML). Given that code was written only last year, I'm sure Kovid Goyal would have applied all the lessons of the previous several years to make it efficient.
The transform from EPUB to AZW is presumably relatively simple because the calibre book editor operates on both EPUB and AZW3 books, and because of MOBI's links with the Kindle (lots of users), I would guess conversion from EPUB to MOBI is optimally efficient
There's always a lot of work in starting something and ending something, as a writer you would know this. Software's just the same; it has to gather and marshal a bunch of stuff before it can start, and then make it all ship-shape again when it's done.
Your thanks should go to avantman42, for reminding us of the little used PI, Saulius P for having written in the first instance, and PeterT for making it work with calibre 2.x - I'm just the tea boy
BR