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Originally Posted by NullNix
I remain amazed how different people's usage of these tools is: a natural consequence of them being such huge sprawling multifeatured monsters I suppose. My only usage of Calibre, modulo very occasional ebook conversions from epub, is (automated) grabbing of periodicals I'm a subscriber to and immediate email out to the Kindle... conveniently I read many of the same periodicals as Calibre's author, so when the recipes break they are always fixed by Kovid almost at once  what can I say, the results of Kovid's recipes are miles nicer to read than the periodicals' phone apps and phone screens are painful to read on compared to a Kindle anyway. |
It's not a matter of appearance; I've stopped using Calibre recipes entirely. Around the same
this email issue started, I got my invite to Readwise's Reader app beta. It has a feed reader which suits my overall needs a lot better than the recipes.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
For those thinking of deleting all of their source Mobi, are you low on disk space? Would you have a problem if you kept them? Have you read all of them (in whatever format)? If you've not read them, you may want to keep them in case you find a problem with the format you converted to and you need to go back and have a look at the source Mobi.
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It's not a matter of space. Similar to Sirtel, it's a matter of too much clutter. I can hoard like the best of them and can happily live with an item forever, but as soon as I perceive there's no longer any need for it, it becomes clutter and I want it out of my sight. And that mindset carries over to digital files as well; I don't care if they're only bits and bytes and there's more than enough space to store them, I just want them gone. This radical cutting away is well known at home. When my husband cannot find something, anything, the conversation usually starts like this: "Did you throw away the ...?" (
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As for keeping original formats in case something needs fixing later, that's not likely to be an issue for me. Since the start of my ebooks journey (2010) to now, I've only had cause to edit two books, one with particularly nasty and hard-to-ignore formatting and the other where the TOC and chapter headings were not structured properly, and I was doing a buddy read with a chapter-based discussion schedule. I've come across many books where the formatting etc was not ideal but also not bothersome enough for me to play around with fixing it. Once it's not distracting me from what I'm reading, I really don't care.