Thread: How to bulk "Polish/embed" covers in pdf files
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Old 08-14-2021, 07:44 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by The Holy View Post
Also, when the books are polished, a new epub is created and the original file is renamed to ORIGINAL_EPUB. Is there a good reason to keep the original files? I know the cover should stay in the folder since it needs to be there for calibre to display it in the calibre program. Does that apply to the separate metadata file as well or can they also be deleted along with the original epub?

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The metadata file in the book directories are used to by calibre to display the metadata (one heck of a lot faster than reading the metadata from the ebook files no to mention that some formats that don't support metadata embedding), allow for database recovery, etc. Do not delete them.
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