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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Iirc, the original_* files were meant as a way to recover from bad conversions/mods. Hence, the assumption is the regular version is a bad copy so the original is always used.
What I do is create a selective mirror of the library using Robocopy.
Code:
robocopy "main lib" "epub convert lib" /if *.db *.json *.epub /xx /mir
Run the conversions on the target library, then copy the resulting files to the main library.
Code:
robocopy "epub convert lib" "main lib" /if *.mobi *.azw3 /xx /mir /maxage:1
Then just fix file sizes using Quality Check plugin.
Granted, this uses more storage but I've got sufficient space to spare and I can always buy more or bigger drives if needed. |
that is a neat idea.
i don't do bulk conversions, so I am happy to sneakily move the original format out of calibre library , then put it back afterwards.
it only happens when I wand a conversion of something I have fine-tuned for reading in epub e.g. I want to take a copy with me on a kindle
For safety, I don't like to delete the original format until I have actually finished reading the book in question, just in case I discover a bug