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Originally Posted by nikoski
Thanks, ok, i see.
I let "reading list / auto populate from search" automatically send all my books to my device on connect.
My device is an android smartphone 5". It's normally more pleasant to read an epub on it than a PDF. But for epubs created from a PDF (and both merged because of the same book) there is no relying on the epub-output. That's why, in those cases, i'd like to have the original PDF format on my device for reference as well.
Sure, to look for double-format entry after the sync and it manually would be a work-araund....but not really a pleasant one  Is there no way to make it a bit more automatically? |
First, note that we are discussing a calibre issue, not a CC one. There isn't any way for CC (or any other device) to ask calibre to send more than one format for a book. As such, any solution/work-around will be in calibre.
I know of no automatic way in calibre to send more than one format to a device. One manual way that might work for you is to use calibre's search capability to find books with both epub and pdf formats where only one of the two format is on the device (in CC). You can then select the entire search result and then "Send specific format ...". The steps:
- Connect CC to calibre as a wireless device. Wait for the initial exchanges to finish.
- In calibre, search for
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formats:pdf and formats:epub and ondevice:true and not ondevice:books
You might want to put this into a saved search or a virtual library.
- Select all the search results.
- Click the down-arrow on Send-to-device, choose Send specific format, choose Main memory, choose PDF.
- Do the search again if it isn't a VL. If there are any books found then these will have the pdf and not the epub. Select all and use Send specific format to send the epub(s).