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Originally Posted by texasnightowl
what tips or advice would you give to people/new users?
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If you find a bug / problem / wanted feature, post about it on the forum to see if there is a solution / it's being worked on / or requested a bunch of time. If there is no solution, it's not being worked on open a
ticket. Any type of request is best put into a ticket in general but I use the forums to gage popularity when I'm looking at adding new features people have requested.
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Originally Posted by texasnightowl
what are your best practices? your workflow with your books?
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Try a straight conversion to you're preferred output format. If it looks good you're done. If not fiddle with the conversion settings to see if there one that fixes the issue you're seeing. If it still doesn't turn out right, convert to EPUB and try fixing it in Sigil or BookDesigner. If all else fails convert to TXT, fix it, use the markup syntax to mark things like chapters and add back the images. Convert to you're preferred format. You may have to adjust the TOC generation XPath.
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Once the books are imported to Calibre, do you keep or delete the original files or the drm stripped but unprocess files? Do you convert to only the format you need (in my case .mobi for Kindle 1) or do you plan for the future and convert to epub or other too?
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I convert to my preferred archive format and keep that one around. If I need it in any other format I will convert from that "master" to the format I need. As for purchased books, the original can be redownloaded from a number of the services you mentioned.