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Old 12-30-2011, 04:13 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
@toddos: intersting, thanks for the info. I'm somewhat surprised even at the stat calls, as IIRC they should not be happening en masse on startup, but that is a lot more believable. I think they only happen if you have a custom column defined. That causes get_metadata to be called which in turn reads the sizes and last modified times for the ebook files. That info is cached, so future calls will not actually hit the filesystem.
I do have a yes/no "Read" custom column and a page count (using a plugin) column, and the book is the first in the list so it's selected when calibre starts up. It doesn't seem like the behavior is bad to me
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