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Originally Posted by dwig
Many people want to keep their "pre-hacked" originals while reading the hacked version for convenience. Calibre supports this automatically for some formats but not PDF.
I don't see why the OP would want to read the pre-hacked version, but keeping it for possible future re-hacking can be a good thing.
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Primarily because I sometimes read some math-y books, and the ability to take handwritten note in the margins (so I can write out equations more easily) is useful. Plus my tablet has a bigger screen size than my Kobo, so it's manageable to have the margins there.
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Personally, since calibre can loose unsupported files (e.g. *.pdf_orig, ...) residing in its folder tree, I would recommend creating a duplicate book entry giving two separate entries. Simply rename one to include "untrimmed" at the end of the title. Now use Briss, or whatever, on the original book. You will now have a stable calibre library and have both the original and that has been through the ceremony with the mohel.
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Good to know that Calibre may lose unsupported files - that's definitely a strike against this method.
This solution may be what I turn to if I can't associate a good PDF reader with .pdf_orig. The only issue, then is easy file management when syncing my Kobo with Calibre. I want to make sure that I just send the cropped PDFs to the Kobo and clearly know what's the original and what's the cropped version. I suppose that could be handled with a "cropped" tag, though.