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Old 12-31-2019, 02:56 PM   #4
jleslie48
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
select book in calibre: Tap the 'O'

DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES to the file names. it will break linkages

[edit] But I think you want to use some of the CLI tools (see the online help site)
thank you ! I got it to work easily from the command prompt. God knows why the gui is so ridiculously stupid and confusing.

ebook-convert [full path ]fromfile.ext [full path]tofile.ext

where the extension drives the conversion time as in
ebook-convert C:\tempdir\eebaum-wizardofoz.mobi C:\tempdir\eebaum-wizardofoz.txt

nice and easy. why the gui makes this so difficult is an exercise of over-engineering.
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