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Originally Posted by lostinlodos
Ok… that’s in the manual? Oh… I see!
The developer has made an extensive and powerful. Document platform.
But ultimately the internet sees it as the single greatest converter. Ever.
You're the minority, even if not so here on this forum. When you search for e-something converter calibre and great reviews take up most of the first dozen pages.
Search for ebook library, crickets.
Despite any intention of the programmer: calibre is the worlds go to CONVERTER.
Granted most people won’t ever notice their files are still in their drives. Those who do notice, tend to be skilled enough to work around the issue.
I created a quick link to the folder. When I finish my process I simply click the link, right click, and delete the folder.
Soon even that won’t be necessary. I sent the info to the CleanMyMac team. Eventually that will be added to the various garbage stores it cleans.
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Come in spinner.
My comment was primarily directed at owb for suggesting someone who 'only wants to convert' might want to install an optional plugin and learn a little of its command set and calibre's template language; none of which have anything to do with conversion per se.
To do what… to avoid using two keystroke sequences e.g. Alt+D (to pop the caltrash dialogue) and Alt+C (to empty the caltrash bin).
As why people use calibre, arm yourself with some facts. You don't have to look far - the calibre sub forums have thread and post count columns. A finer grain set of numbers can be had from the plugins sub-forum - GUI plugins are predominantly related to library management, Input and Output plugins relate to conversion - a sort on Reply count shows 18 GUI PIs and 3 Conversion In/Out PIs on the first page - 6:1.
For a large portion of calibre users, integration with their e-reader devices is the main attraction; library management and conversion are necessary-evils to that end.
BR