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Originally Posted by Manichean
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.
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I had a book like this. I had left it running for a few hours on my laptop with no progress so I gave up.
I moved it to my desktop - a custom-built, dual core Phenom 550 Black Edition, unlocked to quad core and overclocked to 3.6ghz w/ 6GB DDR2 800 - it took 6-12 hours (not sure how long since I left the computer running when I went to work at night).
It was the CSS that took a long time to crunch, like others have said. I'm sure this same process would have took a day or more on my laptop (A Turion x2 tablet convertible).