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Originally Posted by lostinlodos

I believe the difference is in the book types we use. I have technical books fills with schematics that are over a gigabyte. Each.

What type of technical books with schematics? The few of those that I have are well under 500MB each. Given that Adobe states the file size limit for a compressed PDF is 500MB, I'm wondering what type of technical books are that much larger, what format they are supplied in and, what format you are converting to. 99% of the tech manuals I have are supplied in PDF format especially the ones where you have the equivalent of A0 or A1 paper sizes for the schematics.

Originally Posted by lostinlodos

IBut that’s not the point. How about a real world comparison. When you finish dinner you put the waste in the sink, not the trash. That’s exactly what moving books to another folder is.
It’s a matter of preference.

Actually, I put part of my dinner waste in the organics recycling bucket, non-organic recyclables in a bin and any non-recyclable bits and bobs in a lined trash bucket. Once a week or so, I take the organics recycling bucket out and dump it in the complex organics bin, empty the recyclables bin in the complex recyclable bins and the trash bag goes into the trash dumpster.

Originally Posted by lostinlodos

IAs for document management;
Maybe not directly, but definitely publicly: Calibre was originally marketed as Calibre ebook converter.
That’s the title when looking it up on multiple free-software sites to this day.

Calibre, billing extensible, has the widest selection of input and output formats for a GUI converter. For many, I’m clearly not alone, the converter is the primary use.

In my case, I use it over eCanCrusher for one reason. The software is easy and capable of creating ePubs using my chosen dedicated font, over ride other font and display functions, and download my news feeds directly to ePub files using my default formatting choices.

For me? I remember when calibre was libprs500 and was created as a document manager and converter to LRF format for Sony's PRS-500 ereader. For more information, see calibre's About - History. I've seen it referred to as calibre ebook converter or even misspelled as Calibre ebook converter however Kovid Goyal refers to it as "a comprehensive e-book management tool". That still seems to be the main purpose for the majority of calibre users.

I am wondering why you would refer to eCanCrusher as a conversion tool since the only purpose that it has—that I am aware of—is converting an unpacked ePub directory structure to or from an ePub .zip compressed archive. That hardly qualifies as conversion, IMNSHO.