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Old Yesterday, 07:18 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I copied a 0.5MB eBook over a 3.1MB eBook and restarted calibre and the listing still shows as 3.1MB. Doing it the way I described, thee listing now shows as 0.5MB correctly. This is why making changes to the library outside of the GUI is not a good idea. The database won't know about any changes you've made.
Rubbish, there is no intrinsic difference between drag-dropping a format file from somewhere into the MDE formats box, and copying the file into the clipboard and then pasting that into the book using the relevant calibre Add Books action:

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And I don't have to restart calibre to see the new size, it changes in front of my eyes.

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