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Originally Posted by eschwartz
This behavior (not respecting the Preferences to use old MOBI) is documented in the manual, see: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/con...for-conversion
tl;dr
Once a book is first converted, it remembers the settings you used, to pre-load the Conversion dialog options.
You can reset that via the relevant option in Bulk Edit Metadata. |
Hmm. Granted that it's documented, but IMO, misfeature. At least there is an explanation.
“If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles—but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that.”
- Marcus J. Ranum
(Also, the word "email" appears nowhere in that section, leaving it as a moderately obscure inference that the behavior carries across to email autoconversion. Which, in turn, reminds me of:
“Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes a mistake, a giant “?” lights up in the center of the dashboard. “The experienced driver,” says Thompson,“will usually know what’s wrong.””)