Thread: redo epub to epub - don't use original-epub
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Old 02-20-2014, 03:12 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
I agree with your last point.

I need to retest the other points. I did one re-convert & noted that front & back matter, copyright etc. pages were present & I usually edit those out after the initial convert. Maybe I picked a bad test case where I'd not done that....

RETEST RESULT - Sorry but you were wrong:

TEST process
1. pick any book where there is just the one epub format
2. run epub to epub - this creates the original-epub format
3. now edit that book - type in THIS IS A TEST at start of chapter 1
4 redo point 2.
5. open book in editor - the text added in 3. is not there

so step 4 DID use original-epub as source
My bad, I sort of misread you post -

I've always been confused over this, its why I don't retain ORIGINAL_xxxx in the calibre book folders. As soon as I have a ORIGINAL_xxxx I put it in a 7z archive, delete the ORIGINAL_xxxx and add the 7z to the book (if its not there already).

I don't understand why the conversion dialogue can't be explicit. If there's an EPUB, an ORIGINAL_EPUB, an RTF and an ORIGINAL_RTF then why not display the one that's going to be used, and offer all 4 in the Input drop down for me to explicitly select the one that I want... assuming the default isn't the one I want.

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