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Old 09-06-2018, 06:49 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by JimmyR View Post
This may clear up some confusion about conversion settings:
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/con...for-conversion
Aha:
"1. From the defaults set in Preferences->Conversion
"2. From the saved conversion settings for each book being converted (if any). This can be turned off by the option in the top left corner of the Bulk Conversion dialog."

And 2 takes precedence.

This is a nasty, subtle and unexpected trap that I would expect most people would be surprised by -- having converted a book, discovered a problem, changed preferences according and reconverted, I would expect the new preference settings to hold. By no, they will be ignored completely!

And even worse, if I convert a single book (or if, as in my case, I auto-convert to AZW3 when attempting to upload EPUBs to my Kindle, and never convert manually), I don't have the option to do anything about this AT ALL.

And finally, even having unticked the box, the next time I do a bulk conversion the box is ticked again -- so it looks like (for certain books at least) I have to include them in a bulk conversion (and remember to untick the box again!) in order to kill off the ToC Zombie that keeps rising from the dead. Is there no way to untick this box permanently?

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