add two pdf instances for one book

deva1984 · 07-10-2013, 04:59 PM

Hi, my question here is there any way i can add two pdfs for one book in calibre? I need one for PC and one for kindle.
Conversion is not a plausible option. The book is a graphic novel. The outputs I've got sofar are quite unreadable

BetterRed · 07-10-2013, 06:43 PM

@deva1984 - This is what I do for that sort of situation, I prefer having all versions of the same 'book' together

Add the book using the best for kindle PDF, get the title and author as you want them
Rename the best for PC version as <whatever>.pdfpc, associate pdfpc with your desktop/laptop PDF reader, add this file to the book created above via Add Books->Add files to selected book records

There may be calibre functions you can't perform on the pdfpc file such as send to device and convert, but that doesn't seem like it will a problem for you

Suggest you try it out on a test library to see what it feels like

BR

deva1984 · 07-14-2013, 05:06 AM

That is a smart workaround indeed. I've tried it yesterday and it worked perfectly. Thank you BR.

07-10-2013, 04:59 PM	#1
deva1984 Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2012 Device: kindle touch	add two pdf instances for one book Hi, my question here is there any way i can add two pdfs for one book in calibre? I need one for PC and one for kindle. Conversion is not a plausible option. The book is a graphic novel. The outputs I've got sofar are quite unreadable

07-10-2013, 06:43 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 22,042 Karma: 30277960 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@deva1984 - This is what I do for that sort of situation, I prefer having all versions of the same 'book' together Add the book using the best for kindle PDF, get the title and author as you want them Rename the best for PC version as <whatever>.pdfpc, associate pdfpc with your desktop/laptop PDF reader, add this file to the book created above via Add Books->Add files to selected book records There may be calibre functions you can't perform on the pdfpc file such as send to device and convert, but that doesn't seem like it will a problem for you Suggest you try it out on a test library to see what it feels like BR Last edited by BetterRed; 07-10-2013 at 11:15 PM.

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07-14-2013, 05:06 AM	#3
deva1984 Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2012 Device: kindle touch	That is a smart workaround indeed. I've tried it yesterday and it worked perfectly. Thank you BR.

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