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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
The idea is that I store only references to the files in the database. What that means is that the database will be so small that it will be loaded entirely into memory. So read only operations (like searching or sorting the list of books) will be very fast.
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Exactly. If my 2000 record XBMC database had to store the contents of my 2TB video collection it would obviously be ridiculously unworkable.
Kovid, personally speaking, I'm very jazzed by your announcement here. I have a collection of about 3000+ .mobi/oeb files and this will make it practical to catalog my entire collection. I for one don't care a whit about abandoning my current smallish calibre database and starting afresh. I wouldn't even worry about any lib conversion utilities.
If you need anyone to beta-test the new lib I'd be happy to do it and re-do it if required.