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Originally Posted by oldstrega
my bad.
it is intensive. disregard. flac conversion now running about the same as that day i imported the wsj into calibre.
guess it's about really using your CPU full bore.
shouldn't worry the mac'll shut itself down if the temp gets too high.
just rarely seen those temps before.
didn't mean to cause a ruckus.
however, after further experimentation, i think i prefer pdf to epub format for annotation purposes. devonthink pro rules.
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Keep in mind that some of the recipes that are included with Calibre farm an INSANE number of articles off the source site due to how far back their RSS feeds go. I haven't delved deep lately, but last time I checked, a lot of them didn't do much culling of old articles to reduce size/time. The fact that Calibre is written in Python does add some overhead compared to a fully "native" application, but it really only shows up in conversion (which happens at the end of a fetch and is where the CPU time you see is going). Most of the rest of the time, the app is waiting on the OS to finish copying a file, fetch data from the network, etc.
At one point I wrote my own newspaper fetching app to have better control over culling articles, layout, and output that the Sony models preferred (full TOC support as if you bought it from Sony, for example). Even then, it still took a good 2-5 minutes to pull down the articles from 3 papers over a 24 hour period. Calibre fetches tend to pull down every article in the RSS feed which can easily be 5-10 times that.