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Originally Posted by RAH
I'm not at all familiar with the way this ebook conversion operates, but it seems that a simple "Save As" (to modify the name) is not in the cards.
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In your initial post, you asked about Conversion, not Saving. Conversion operates entirely within the Calibre database, and inside Calibre, there is no concept of a filename, so no concept of a way to Convert to a different filename. When you convert to another format, the issues of "filename" or "Save As" are not relevant. Your question, as originally framed, applied to conversion, and in that context, Calibre's design only permits one of each format for each book record. If you want two versions of the same format inside Calibre, you have to make another record - which is what you referred to as "some extra manipulation."
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I mean that's the way you do things with image manipulation, word-processing documents, etc. Seems odd that this simple operation isn't available for ebook manipulation.
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Actually, it (Save As) is available for Saving out of the Calibre library. That's the first point where the concept of a filename has any meaning. Calibre allows you to set any filename you want when exporting a copy out of the Library. You construct the filename you want, including the directory/folder name from all the metadata stored about your book (author, title, series name/number, publisher, tags, genres or whatever you want.) If you really want to tell Calibre to save out the book with a specific name, instead of constructing the name on the fly from the metadata, you can do that too.