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Originally Posted by Adoby
Still. Calibre IS very slow. I dpn't believe I have any other program on my computer that is as demanding on my computer, as Calibre is.
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No other program, that you mention, is written in an interpreted language.
Each language has advantages and trade-offs. One of the disadvantages of interpreted languages is speed. On the other hand, Python is multi-platform (I LOVE running Calibre on Linux computer), facilitates fast development (so we see new and exciting features much, much more often than, for example, Open^H^H^H^HLibreOffice users) and enables developers to implement kick-ass Regular Expressions searches and replacements throughout the program relatively easy.
I have been using Calibre on and off since very early versions, even before it was called Callibre. I just loved the fact that I could run LibPRS-500 on my Linux comp instead of running clunky, quirly and weird Sony ... aehm ... "professionally written" library software and having to boot into Windows.
Recently I have started to use Calibre to manage my collection of books, texts, articles and other stuff. Its start IS slow, the interface isn't exactly my cup of tea (it is better than previous versions, or I got used to it ;-) ), but it features so many tricks, options, shortcuts that I keep discovering that I am constantly amazed by the work that was done.
I have found one aspect of the program very slow. Conversion process. When I start conversion of a *.lit book, the process takes many minutes. Kovid told me that this is normal, and that his convertor does more things than other convertors, so I simply started to use an external program lit2epub, which is free and lightning fast. No problem here. I only wish I could tell Calibre to use lit2epub convertor for converting from lit to epub instead of the default one (which is a stand-alone program anyway).