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elricks · 04-02-2011, 12:47 AM

Good afternoon. I am new to Calibre and new to ebooks, but experienced in computing.

I installed the app and selected 200 books for the library. I signed up for an account on the second option imbd. After some dummy runs getting metadata for individual books to get a feel for the process, I chose to edit metadata in bulk. I made sure the book titles were 'correct' - I had to remove the published year which was appended to the title.

I have broadband and I am using XP PRO, and I do not have speed issues with any other net based app.

The process for getting the metadata is very slow. Well over an hour to download for these 190 files, and I am at 59%. I am also wondering why, when doing one book at a time, I do not have the option available to use the other database (sorry of this is the wrong name but Calibre is downloading now and I can't access the option to get the correct name) until the system has finished the google books option. I was trying to test to see if the second option was faster than the first.

Thanks in advance - I am rather looking forward to learning more about this app and ebook reading in general

SHIRLEY

04-02-2011, 12:47 AM	#1
elricks Long in the tooth junior Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: melbourne, australia Device: none	slow download metadata Good afternoon. I am new to Calibre and new to ebooks, but experienced in computing. I installed the app and selected 200 books for the library. I signed up for an account on the second option imbd. After some dummy runs getting metadata for individual books to get a feel for the process, I chose to edit metadata in bulk. I made sure the book titles were 'correct' - I had to remove the published year which was appended to the title. I have broadband and I am using XP PRO, and I do not have speed issues with any other net based app. The process for getting the metadata is very slow. Well over an hour to download for these 190 files, and I am at 59%. I am also wondering why, when doing one book at a time, I do not have the option available to use the other database (sorry of this is the wrong name but Calibre is downloading now and I can't access the option to get the correct name) until the system has finished the google books option. I was trying to test to see if the second option was faster than the first. Thanks in advance - I am rather looking forward to learning more about this app and ebook reading in general SHIRLEY