[Starson17]

Originally Posted by sidd.artha

I have been using Calibre for over 6 or 7 patches. And it has everything I wanted for my book colection and even a few things more. But everything stops when you end up using a test database of 3 books and move to the real thing. I have put a little over 2500 books, which is only part of the contents of my hard drive and everything went down with a bang.

2500 books is a small database. I've seen databases more than 10 times that size. Mine is 7 times that size. Initial import into the database can take time, but it only happens once, and if you can find a program that does the initial import faster, go for it.

The autodetection is nice. But it takes only less than for ever. And there are some issues as it does not identify a book by its contents. It only tries to load the metadata stored infile. Say it does not find/read the metadata you get Unknown by Unknown and (!) you are prompted for duplicates.

It's not Calibre's fault if 1) your internal metadata sucks and 2) you didn't bother to read how to extract metadata externally from filenames using the regex import functions.

MD4 or MD5 are quick enough to help. Even a check of the filesize would show it's not a duplicate.

They wouldn't help. You're not trying to identify bit for bit dupes, you're trying to identify whether it's the same title book written by the same author. A PDF version is a duplicate of a LIT version if it's the same book. It's your obligation to get the right metadata into Calibre. If you don't want to bother, just let Calibre add all the books. The "Duplicates" message is just informational for you.

Saving the metadata for a 10 book database is quite ok. But saving the metadata for a 2500 book database means you have to wait about 30 minutes.

It sounds like you have an antivirus interfering. My 6-7 times larger DB saves in seconds.

I'm not going to try to convince you to use it. It's not for you. Go elsewhere. I have none of the problems you face, but then I don't run on a tiny machine.