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Originally Posted by Man Eating Duck
I'm a long-time user of Calibre, and the speed and "snappiness" has been steadily improved. I just keep the books I've read in my library, plus a few books worth of reading queue, so my library is still smallish at about 200 books. If you find that Calibre doesn't scale well with large libraries (other posters in this thread indicates that it's not too bad), you might want to create a smaller library for speedy day-to-day use, and a huge one for "basement archiving".
But look at it this way: Calibre is so brilliant for managing/browsing your collection that it probably saves *you* for significant amounts of work. Other applications I've tried are cumbersome, and I can't imagine that any of them would be very useful for managing a library of significant size, nevermind 3000+ entries. With Calibre I can find any book within seconds, and I can do bulk changes/updates with a minimum of effort. I've reorganised my collection several times (changing author naming structure, different tags, added series and so on), and it has only taken me 2-3 minutes of work each time.
For this convenience Calibre may make my computer work a little harder. I say let it, as long as I don't have to  |
The first time I open calibre after a restart of my machine, it does take a bit longer but it isn't so long that I ever felt a need to time it. Between restarts, which are infrequent since I run my machine 24/7, I just leave calibre running since it doesn't seem to interfere with anything else and I'm in and out of it frequently since I'm still in the middle of a massive book scanning project. It's hard for me to judge accurately since I'm constantly adding books as I scan them in, but it definite seems calibre is loading faster since I started using it despite the large number of books I've added along the way.
Calibre is still under development so I'm sure it will eventually get even faster.