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Originally Posted by jackbrown
So the feature is effectively useless if you have a large library?
I have about 1500 pdfs I wanted to catalog with calibre. I set up a regular expression that works great with them individually, but it does not work when I try to do the whole database or even a significant subset.
The metadata download job just runs for days and produces no results at all. But as I said if I select 1 or 2 pdfs and run it, it works fine and produces results in a couple of minutes.
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No! It is not useless.
Just don't do it (download) all at once.
That Library collection did not happen overnight.
I think it un-realistic that you think that the Meta-data supplier servers, supply bulk Meta-data for free, in truck load quantities.
I catalogued my DTL, a few months back using a bar code scanner and Add from ISBN. I did it in 15 book batches (to allow ease of resolving: 'no finds') with almost no delay in populating the Metadata and covers