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Originally Posted by theducks
Why are you using such a convoluted scheme?
Polish and Modify EPUB can Add or Replace all those IN THE LIBRARY COPY, as well as do certain housecleaning without those gyrations AND not with the other side effects of a 'conversion'.
You need to make the configuration settings to match your personal preferences.
Each has slightly different options, so a look-see might be advised  |
i don't think it's convoluted. basically, i want to have my own directory (that's NOT the calibre library because i hate now it stores the files in nested folders with ugly names and 3-files-per-book), and i want my final storage directory to be full of singular epubs. each epub would self-contained with the cover, cleaned up meta, etc. i prefer to simply drag-n-drop from whatever directory my ebooks are in into my reader. the same way as a book at your physical book store - the cover is part of the book, it's not a separate items that's on a separate shelf that you need to remember to grab along with the pages of the book.
i'm looking for a way to treat an epub the same way you treat a word document. you open it, make changes, and when you hit "save" it saves it WITH all the changes you made embedded into the saved file. it seems calibre saves the original file, but saves changes elsewhere, and that's preventing me from moving a simple epub around.
i just found a thread that says i may need to do a "convert epub->epub" before doing the "save to disk" so that it actually embeds the new meta/cover... ugh... only 996 files to potentially redo.