Polish Books question

[phossler]

I have epub and azw3 versions of many books. I like the way the editor works with epubs so I do 99.9% with that format and convert to azw3.

Is there a way to just polish the azw3 versions before I side load to my paperwhite, and just leave the epub as it is?

I thought there might be an option in Convert to automatically run Polish on the converted copy, but I don't think so

I know that there is a ORIGINAL_EPUB created, but I didn't see anyway to easily revert the polished EPUB back

[Divingduck]

Dito. There is no shortcut to do this. As of today you need to do it book by book and format by format.

[kovidgoyal]

You can restore original version by simply right clicking in ORIGINAL_EPUB in the book details panel, or you can do it in bulk via the edit bulk metadata dialog.

[Divingduck]

Kovid, +1

It was my first thought with bulk metadata and I did not recognize this little line "Restore pre conversion originals, if available"

[theducks]

I am under the impression that Polish just makes the Library copy 'Current'.
Books sent to devices get the treatment on the fly.

[Divingduck]

Originally Posted by theducks

I am under the impression that Polish just makes the Library copy 'Current'.
Books sent to devices get the treatment on the fly.

It can do a little bit more than only update metadata.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Divingduck

It can do a little bit more than only update metadata.

I disagree. Subsetting embedded fonts and lossless compressing the graphics is more than just updating metadata. Doing this makes the size of eBooks smaller without any loss of quality.

[Divingduck]

I don't get it.
Where is the difference to my answer ... it can (do a little bit) more than ... ?

[phossler]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You can restore original version by simply right clicking in ORIGINAL_EPUB in the book details panel, or you can do it in bulk via the edit bulk metadata dialog.

Thanks

Both methods work fine (now if I can only remember them )

However, it would be nice if Preferences or Polish had a 'Only For These Types' setting or if Conversion had an option to run Polish on the output format. If I have a EPUB and AZW3 then Polish does 2x the work (since I only want the polished AZW3)

[eschwartz]

A lot (all?) of those settings have always been available in the conversion dialog...

[phossler]

A lot (all?) of those settings have always been available in the conversion dialog...

I could only find 3 out of the 9 Polish features as conversion settings

The most important one that's missing (I couldn't see it) is the 'Remove unused CSS Rules"

Admittedly this is a very minor issue since all the capabilities are available

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by theducks

I am under the impression that Polish just makes the Library copy 'Current'.
Books sent to devices get the treatment on the fly.

I think you may be confusing 'Polish' and 'Embed Metadata'. AFAIK the latter (which is a subset of the former) is essentially what gets done when a format file (and not just EPUBs or AZWs) is sent to a device or saved to disk.

[kovidgoyal]

conversion removes all unused css anyway. There is literally nothing polish does that conversion does not do. The only reason polish exists is for those people that are afraid that conversion will mess up their books.

[phossler]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

conversion removes all unused css anyway. There is literally nothing polish does that conversion does not do. The only reason polish exists is for those people that are afraid that conversion will mess up their books.

I didn't realize that either. Since I do my reformatting and cleanuping with the epub, and only convert to azw3 to side load, I never had any reason to open up the azw3 with the editor

Thanks for the information. This will save me several steps that I don't have to do

[BetterRed]

An advantage Polish has over Conversion is speed.

BR