The library was given to me
I've spent weeks cleaning it up and adding to it. It was originally maintained under Unix(?) and has a LOT of long long files names that Windows does NOT like. Well, not in Calibre anyway. Funny things happen to these files under Calibre.
By limiting the formats I have to rescue I lessen my load.
The long filenames are not just a few characters over the 259(?) limit as can be explained by longer enveloping directory names etc. Filenames like 400-500 characters long
Some entries list every story in the collection in the filename
Happily duplication of entries is not one of the problems I have to clean up
So one of the libraries has 9155 books in it and there are four libraries
Anyway, I digress....
Wow! I didn't think conversions would take THAT long
I thought - a couple of seconds????
I have a Quad core i7 beast
