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Originally Posted by sidd.artha
Once it loads it is huge in terms of memory. On a netbook with WinXP which has to fit in 1G of RAM you can't load something like a webbroswer and navigate as one would have to move to swap.
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It's a huge application with a lot of functionality. This is the same as complaining Photoshop uses too much memory.
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Originally Posted by sidd.artha
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.
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That's the point of metadata...
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Say it does not find/read the metadata you get Unknown by Unknown and (!) you are prompted for duplicates.
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You can have it use information from the filename if your metadata is bunk.
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MD4 or MD5 are quick enough to help. Even a check of the filesize would show it's not a duplicate.
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Books can have multiple files. This would cause every different format for a book show as a different book.
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Also, there is an internal mechanism to access the net for upgrades, yet the upgrade has to be done with a browser. Why?
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Calibre supports multiple OS's. Each one having different requirements for installing and updating applications. While an upgrade mechanism would be nice it's not a priority. It's a large difficult feature that will give little gain.
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If there is the code for checking for upgrades, and the author has thrown in here everything but the kitchen sink (reader, converter, database) and there is a book reader which supports some HTML, yet for checking out the patched issues you get to fire the web browser. Which, as I said above, means a lot for a 1G machine. I'm sure that there are geeks out there with 1TB of RAM or even more, yet there are still out there laptops with 256MB or 512MB of RAM.
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Again, would you run Photoshop on a machine like this?
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They are quite good for having as book readers, as with my netbook, yet they could not possibly run an unoptimised mammoth like Calibre.
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It runs fine on my 5 year old laptop. It also runs fine on Kovid's older computers.
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As pointed above Calibre can't find a duplicate even when it needs to know (for example if the Unknown by Unknown is the same book as the others with the same labels) so it could not do it for you either.
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Unknown by Unknown is the same book. A book is not a file, it can be multiple files (different formats).
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I have tried to make it slim by using or abusing the plugin system... I don't use any of them as I am missing the point - they are bulky, they have clunky interfaces, most of them give power to the firm that made them and not me, ...
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What? Supporting various hardware devices and showing their limitations empowers the form that made them and takes power away from you. If the device doesn't support what you want to do that's calibre's fault?
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... and, for the sake of turning an alleged 8000 pages I have to pay at least what I have paid for my netbook only to have less memory, more to fiddle and almost no other functionalty besides justify and an mp3 player. But that is another issue.
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That sounds like your main problem.
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My problem is that I can't unload those plugins. And others. What kind of a plugin is that that won't unload?
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A plugin system that dynamically loads the plugins when they are needed. If you don't plug in a Kindle the Kindle plugin will never be called and will never use any memory. All plugins are loaded on demand.
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Probably the author has assumed either that there are no books in the world that are not on amazon.com
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There are a number of metadata sources. Look at the plugins. Some require login information before they can be used.
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And the continuous list of supported news services which I hope they bring a good source of revenue to the author who could be able to make something of Calibre by the time it reaches version 1.0
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The news sources do not bring any revenue to the project. The news companies for the news sources do not pay to be in calibre.