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kacir · 12-13-2010, 11:49 AM

Dear sidd.artha

I think that there is something wrong with your system.
I have personal experience with a database several times larger than yours. Calibre DOES slow down with the number of books but not as drastically as your system.
Conversion from lit files takes way too long to my taste, so I use external tool, much quicker but not so sophisticated, but other than that I can't really complain.

Looking for duplicates works differently than you think. When I have Robinson Crusoe.epub already in database and when I drop in Robinson_Crusoe_-_D._Defoe.pdf I expect that the system will recognise newly added book as a "duplicate" and merge it with the existing record.

I prefer not to use autodetection, I usually use complicated Regular Expressions to get most of the metadata I am interested in from the filename.

I DO wish the Calibre was faster, especially with large number of books, but the slow-down is not as catastrophic as you experience.

12-13-2010, 11:49 AM	#6
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,463 Karma: 10684861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	Dear sidd.artha I think that there is something wrong with your system. I have personal experience with a database several times larger than yours. Calibre DOES slow down with the number of books but not as drastically as your system. Conversion from lit files takes way too long to my taste, so I use external tool, much quicker but not so sophisticated, but other than that I can't really complain. Looking for duplicates works differently than you think. When I have Robinson Crusoe.epub already in database and when I drop in Robinson_Crusoe_-_D._Defoe.pdf I expect that the system will recognise newly added book as a "duplicate" and merge it with the existing record. I prefer not to use autodetection, I usually use complicated Regular Expressions to get most of the metadata I am interested in from the filename. I DO wish the Calibre was faster, especially with large number of books, but the slow-down is not as catastrophic as you experience.