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Old 01-18-2009, 07:28 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by llasram View Post
To expand on Kovid's point -- Kovid and calibre contributors only have so much time to work on calibre, and obviously enough must prioritize features. I myself haven't been terribly interested in conversion from LRF because books available in LRF are almost always also available in easier-to-convert formats.
With the exception of several hundred books in LRF format uploaded to the library here at MobileRead by Dr. Drib and some others. Some of those are available from Feedbooks or Manybooks in other formats, but the quality just isn't the same. One book I'm looking at is Five Children and It which has over 40 illustrations. It will take quite a bit of time to start from the text at Project Gutenberg and work up the MobiPocket and ePub versions of the book. If Calibre were able to spit out an ePub version, even if it weren't a perfect rendition, you'd have HTML + images and a basic CSS to use as a starting point in building a more polished product.

As I said, I'm not necessarily *asking* for this function, just thinking about how useful it would be now that Calibre is able to produce a final format other than LRF.
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