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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
An interesting idea, can you tell me why you need this feature?
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Well, I have a vast (Read: in the hundreds) library of Baen E-books, and I like to keep at least one human readable version around at all times. It used to be the RTF, and I'd read it into Book Designer, spend half an hour or more tweaking it, save it as Book Designer's html0 format (so I didn't have to do the tweaking each time) and then make the LRF.
But Book Designer has it's own set of problems, involving weird character conversions, it's insistence on reformatting my content, and it's insistence on using Windows
I have converted all my books multiple times as bugs get fixed in book designer.
So when I found out that html2lrf does a quite passable conversion on the .LIT html, (as long as I remove the useless table of contents html first) without me doing a huge amount of searching through the book to make sure it was doing the right thing, I jumped on the chance, only to be stumped by the fact that there's no way my human readable archive can contain all the information needed to perform the conversion correctly.
I essentially want to be able to automate the conversion of a number of titles in one go, and it's impossible to do with your current command line driven method of specifying metadata. Essentially, if you add a feature at some point that would benefit me, I'd like to be able to reconvert all my books without having to do it all manually.
(One other feature that would be helpful in this endeavour would be the ability to specify the sony ebook ID, so I can ensure that it stays constant across multiple conversions)
In a more general sense, the feature could be useful in an automated website that, for instance, adds a dedication to an ebook for the user before packing it up, although this seems a bit contrived