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Old 08-03-2024, 05:48 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by d3m0sth3n3s View Post
I know that. The thing is I’m not talking about manually pasting text (for an individual e-book) into the Comments field using the calibre GUI metadata editor.

I have lots of e-books in ePub format whose Comments field was filled during the import process and it is stored internally in plain text (in the Comments field in the calibre database). I want to convert the Comments format for those e-books to HTML prior to some regex Search & Replace tweak. To that end, I need that all my e-books have their Comments field stored internally in HTML.
Why do you need all of your comments to be HTML?

All of your comments are converted to HTML if they are not HTML. So you don't need to convert them. Select a book you think has the comments not in HTML. Press the E key and then under the blurb, click the HTML Source tab. You'll see that it is HTML.
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