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Ever since I got the Kindle and have been trying to convert to mobipocket, I have noticed the conversions take much longer. It used to be with LRF that I would click the convert button and it took at most 30 seconds. Now, when I click convert, it does nothing for upwards of 3 minutes (the little mac system icon that says it is working starts to go, but the Calibre conversion working icon does not) and then when it does start the conversion everything seems normal.

Is is supposed to take so long for the conversion to get going with mobi? These are 'liberated' ereader files (i.e. plain html) that I have cleaned up to remove as much 'code' as possible (i.e. they are the plainest of plain as I could get them). I have been making progress (down to 175 files left to do, from 500) but I am really slowed down by the long delay in Calibre commencing the conversion. I am on a mac and using the latest version...