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PastTense · 03-21-2015, 10:49 PM

Suppose one had many thousand ebook files in multiple formats--ranging from older files in txt, rtf, pdf, lit, etc to more modern files in epub and mobi--these just being the more popular of the formats used. One book may be represented by one to several of these formats. And duplications of identical format files are common (for example via backups or by copying the same file into more than one location because it fits into multiple categories or downloading a file more than once).

I think epub would be adequate as a final result with no need for other formats--with one possible exception--I am not sure about pdf files. How does reading pdf files in the Calibre viewer for all formats compare to reading them in a pdf program such as Adobe or Sumatra?

Any advice on how to convert this mess into a clean library? (for example the Find Duplicates, Quality, and Extract ISBN plugins look useful).

Thanks.

03-21-2015, 10:49 PM	#1
PastTense Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Device: none	Converting a Multi-Thousand File Mess into a Clean Library: Advice? Suppose one had many thousand ebook files in multiple formats--ranging from older files in txt, rtf, pdf, lit, etc to more modern files in epub and mobi--these just being the more popular of the formats used. One book may be represented by one to several of these formats. And duplications of identical format files are common (for example via backups or by copying the same file into more than one location because it fits into multiple categories or downloading a file more than once). I think epub would be adequate as a final result with no need for other formats--with one possible exception--I am not sure about pdf files. How does reading pdf files in the Calibre viewer for all formats compare to reading them in a pdf program such as Adobe or Sumatra? Any advice on how to convert this mess into a clean library? (for example the Find Duplicates, Quality, and Extract ISBN plugins look useful). Thanks.