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Originally Posted by Manichean
Yes, you're right, although I stand by my opinion that Calibre, in its current state, isn't too slow for what it does.
I tip my hat to you for jumping in on the first post and direct you to this page. |
I'm more familiar with Calibre now than I was when I made my first post... I completely agree with you, Calibre's speed is satisfactory. There are a few things I did to speed up performance on my computer (I'm sure I'll get some comments, like "those things are obvious", and they are to some degree, but hey at least I'm trying lol...).
One, I had my library on a network drive. But before you comment, know that I have approx. 30 terabytes of storage on three servers in my house. It's been a hobby for more than 10 years, and it's super high speed; BUT my focus has been on streaming media, like high def movies. Which means that it's not optimized for small files like ebooks. It's obvious in retrospect that Calibre will run slow when the library is stored on a network drive, but I've seen chatter from other folks about doing the same thing... Switching to a local drive cut initial load time in half, and saving changes by probably even more than that.
Two, I realized that I had more than twice the number of books in my library than I suggested in my first post. I forgot to count all of my books with 3 or 4 formats... So I just started clicking through and removing books in formats that will never get used. That took quite a while, but seems to have paid off as well.
Three, I took Chaley's advice (by proxy) and defragged my server and local drives... Not kidding when I say it ran for 3 days non stop. (30 TB takes a while lol).
And four, I seem to have found some extra patience, lol. I love the app so much that I really don't care how long it takes to load, although Calibre is significantly faster now that I've cleaned house... It loads >5,000 books in less than 15 seconds. Nice.
Thanks for the dialog folks, it helped.