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johnnyb · 05-31-2011, 05:19 AM

Then my UK Kindle must either be totally different or my Calibre 0.8.3 must be totally different...
(would it be possible to integrate kindlegen in Calibre btw? would that be sth you would want to do?)

Ah one last thing: how does the indexing actually work, could it be that some of the dictionaries I have on my Kindle mess with Calibre in some way (some Oxford ones I bought some years ago)... I tried loading them through Calibre and they were broken (also didnt open in Calibre), sideloading made them work perfectly...

Edit2: haha yeah that was the problem, for some reason, the dictionary index must have been overloaded causing dictionary lookup to slow down (and only in the case of these Oxford dictionaries)... Still, since this is a problem occurring only with Calibre converted eBooks I still insist this is a problem with your conversion plugin...

Edit3: and I also found the reason for the long indexing that occurs... Calibre cant deal with the dictionaries I loaded onto my Kindle... when they're gone it's almost instantly ready, as soon as I load them onto my Kindle, it takes 40 min+ to index (even with just one of them)... I guess this is where the problem is to be located, Calibre is not able to deal with the dictionaries and some indexing problem occurs and its non-standard mobi indexing interferes and makes books converted with Calibre slow... (really not sure if you wanna do sth against that)

Edit4: actually it seems, indexing takes less long with not so many of these dictionaries and lookup is faster (though slower than without them)... Is there actually a way to reconvert these dictionaries without losing their dictionary function? Just to try if they can be optimized as to work better with Calibre books?

05-31-2011, 05:19 AM	#17
johnnyb Cloud Reader Posts: 1,124 Karma: 4000066 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle Oasis, Kindle Scribe, iPad Pro 11	Then my UK Kindle must either be totally different or my Calibre 0.8.3 must be totally different... (would it be possible to integrate kindlegen in Calibre btw? would that be sth you would want to do?) Ah one last thing: how does the indexing actually work, could it be that some of the dictionaries I have on my Kindle mess with Calibre in some way (some Oxford ones I bought some years ago)... I tried loading them through Calibre and they were broken (also didnt open in Calibre), sideloading made them work perfectly... Edit2: haha yeah that was the problem, for some reason, the dictionary index must have been overloaded causing dictionary lookup to slow down (and only in the case of these Oxford dictionaries)... Still, since this is a problem occurring only with Calibre converted eBooks I still insist this is a problem with your conversion plugin... Edit3: and I also found the reason for the long indexing that occurs... Calibre cant deal with the dictionaries I loaded onto my Kindle... when they're gone it's almost instantly ready, as soon as I load them onto my Kindle, it takes 40 min+ to index (even with just one of them)... I guess this is where the problem is to be located, Calibre is not able to deal with the dictionaries and some indexing problem occurs and its non-standard mobi indexing interferes and makes books converted with Calibre slow... (really not sure if you wanna do sth against that) Edit4: actually it seems, indexing takes less long with not so many of these dictionaries and lookup is faster (though slower than without them)... Is there actually a way to reconvert these dictionaries without losing their dictionary function? Just to try if they can be optimized as to work better with Calibre books? Last edited by johnnyb; 05-31-2011 at 06:05 AM.