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Originally Posted by DNSB
I would agree with all but the last item. I've had too many ebooks with all the text in a single file which calibre will happily split. I may have to do some editing to correct some splitting errors (most often where the book title and author both have header tags) but easier in most cases to let calibre do the heavy lifting.
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If I'm converting a book that is not properly split, of course, I will let calibre do the guesswork. However, more often, I encounter books with a graphic at the top of the page on chapter breaks, or a subheading, and Calibre with default settings will butcher those into many unnecessary page breaks.
If coverting between e-book formats, (and the ASSumption here is that most books are already correctly split,), then it's more sensible to *not* let calibre add breaks by default, unless you know they are needed.
Edit: It's worth noting that if a book is *not* split, it can always be done later with another conversion. However, if Calibre is allowed to insert spurious splits, that book will stay that way unless fixed by hand. I can assure you from much experience, that gets tedious in books with over 100 chapters.