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Originally Posted by gweminence
lol...too rich.
Tell you what. Give me your longest, worst conversion file. If it takes my computer as long as you say, I'll publicly eat crow. If not...not.
Because here's a simple fact: conversions are a function of processing power, at their most basic level, it's a matter of how many cpu cycles it takes to make said conversion. It isn't a matter of what kind of file it is. It's a matter of what kind of muscle you bring to bear on it, and the algorithms used by calibre.
So. Tell me how you'd like me to acquire your worst nightmare-file. I'll even post the job results so you won't cry foul.
Deal?
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I'm trying to restrain myself from becoming very impolite and uncivil in my answer.
If you haven't run across any conversions that take more than a few minutes, consider yourself lucky or having access to better source material than I have. The two ebooks I was thinking about are reference books that accompanied the paper book on a CD. They consist of about 20.000 HTML files each, every file encrusted with relatively pointless Javascript and other nasty stuff. I even removed the scripts from the files to get plain HTML before zipping them up and adding them to Calibre. The conversion, on a 2 GHz CPU with 1 GB RAM, took, as I stated, about 24 hours for each book. They still finished successfully.
Of course you're right, conversion time is a function of processing power. Still, if there is much to do, the conversion will take a long time. If you are too ignorant to see that, I suggest you go look for another topic that you can constructively participate in, unlike this one.
The books in question are by
Bronstein and
Stöcker. I would love to attach them and request a photo of your face when they're not still done after about 5 minutes, but for obvious copyright reasons, I cannot.
One last thing: If all you do, after someone states a fact, is ridiculing that fact, you may want to look for another forum. Around here, we try to help people who have problems using Calibre, not mock someone. Oh, and the 286 is actually the only model of the x86 variants up to Pentium 1 I didn't own, not that it matters.