Deleting new AZW3 after Send to Kindle

squeebook · 07-30-2015, 09:29 PM

I have a Kindle PaperWhite, but most of my books are in EPUB format. Calibre automatically creates an AZW3 from the EPUB when I Send to my Kindle, which is great!

But I don't want the AZW3 after the Send. I just don't need it anymore. Right now I have to take extra steps to delete it afterwards.

Is there a way to specify to Calibre that it should treat the converted AZW3 as just a temp file that should be cleaned up after the Send completes, without adding it to the library?

theducks · 07-30-2015, 09:48 PM

Nope,

IMHO Way too dangerous. What if the AZW3 was the original format?

Come on, rotating disk drives are cheap these days. $49 for 1T
That is almost cheaper than a stick of RAM.

AnemicOak · 07-30-2015, 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

IMHO Way too dangerous. What if the AZW3 was the original format?

If Calibre already had an AZW3 in it's library then it wouldn't be converting on transfer so the "temp file" conversion wouldn't come into play.

I don't use a Kindle anymore, but Calibre can't convert on the fly during transfer when needed without leaving behind the conversion? Like when I transfer to my Kobo and it auto converts ePub's to kePubs it doesn't save the kePub in Calibre I'm just left with the ePub I had in the first place.

squeebook · 07-30-2015, 10:28 PM

Well, it's not dangerous at all since it is Calibre that is creating it (if necessary) and it would know whether to delete it. It wouldn't even have to add it to the library at all, just make a temp file somewhere. Obviously if it was already in a Kindle compatible format it wouldn't blindly do any deletions at all.

It's not really the disk space alone, although every little bit helps. There are a few other reasons. If I end up with a EPUB and an AZW3, it is not really clear which is the original retail format when looking at that book later. I have so many new books to read, it is unlikely that I will want to send it to the Kindle to be read for a few years, so it doesn't need to be kept around for the minor speedup of sending again to the reader. And even if I did want to keep it for that purpose, there are advantages to only creating the temp converted file when needed (right before the send) because new versions of Calibre will possibly make better conversions and might have fixed some conversion bugs.

It would still be a nice and cleaner feature to have an option to only create any converted files needed for that device on the fly without adding them to the library.

theducks · 07-30-2015, 11:12 PM

Some people log the original format (Me)
Some people even log where and how much (Not me

)

NB Logged, into custom columns, manually

I do put a copy of the Native version (not touched by Calibre) original in an archive

To each his own

07-30-2015, 09:29 PM	#1
squeebook Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: Kindle PaperWhite	Deleting new AZW3 after Send to Kindle I have a Kindle PaperWhite, but most of my books are in EPUB format. Calibre automatically creates an AZW3 from the EPUB when I Send to my Kindle, which is great! But I don't want the AZW3 after the Send. I just don't need it anymore. Right now I have to take extra steps to delete it afterwards. Is there a way to specify to Calibre that it should treat the converted AZW3 as just a temp file that should be cleaned up after the Send completes, without adding it to the library?

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07-30-2015, 09:48 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,014 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Nope, IMHO Way too dangerous. What if the AZW3 was the original format? Come on, rotating disk drives are cheap these days. $49 for 1T That is almost cheaper than a stick of RAM.

07-30-2015, 10:28 PM	#4
squeebook Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2015 Device: Kindle PaperWhite	Well, it's not dangerous at all since it is Calibre that is creating it (if necessary) and it would know whether to delete it. It wouldn't even have to add it to the library at all, just make a temp file somewhere. Obviously if it was already in a Kindle compatible format it wouldn't blindly do any deletions at all. It's not really the disk space alone, although every little bit helps. There are a few other reasons. If I end up with a EPUB and an AZW3, it is not really clear which is the original retail format when looking at that book later. I have so many new books to read, it is unlikely that I will want to send it to the Kindle to be read for a few years, so it doesn't need to be kept around for the minor speedup of sending again to the reader. And even if I did want to keep it for that purpose, there are advantages to only creating the temp converted file when needed (right before the send) because new versions of Calibre will possibly make better conversions and might have fixed some conversion bugs. It would still be a nice and cleaner feature to have an option to only create any converted files needed for that device on the fly without adding them to the library.

07-30-2015, 11:12 PM	#5
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,014 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Some people log the original format (Me) Some people even log where and how much (Not me ) NB Logged, into custom columns, manually I do put a copy of the Native version (not touched by Calibre) original in an archive To each his own

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