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Old 12-18-2017, 02:55 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I've found that with Calibre, if you change some of the settings, you can put books in and get them out without Calibre doing any conversion or metadata update. I can also use the editor without any changes except the ones I make. But if you want this behavior, you have to change some of the default settings in Calibre, the Editor, and the Viewer. But I've done it and I can use Calibre the way I want.

I don't convert ePub to anything unless the code is that sloppy that I want to see what Calibre does to with the mess. I don't convert KF8 to ePub. I use the KindleUnpack to format shift the code and then the editor to clean it up.

I have my ways and when I'm done, the ePub code has not been changed except by me.
The thing is that calibre also insists on it's own directory structure, which I strongly dislike. It is also hard to properly version with things like git, as I never know when something changes.

Also, calibre will always add it's namespace to the opf file when importing a book. It also adds a dc:contributor for itself, a timestamp, and a few more meta properties.
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