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Originally Posted by AndrewH
I've noticed Calibre is slower at syncing since I turned on automatic management of metadata (under Preferences, Sending Books to Device).
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With automatic management, this is inevitable. Depending on which options you have set (certain plugboards, creating Collections, sorting Collections), calibre can have a lot of work to do every time you connect. Probably, also, the more books on the reader, the longer it takes. You just have to decide which is most important to you, speed or fine-tuning reader's library management. No such thing as a free lunch
Re: calibre not seeing the external SD card, I've also had this in the past. Calibre only waits so long when trying to decide whether an SD card is present. I raised it as a 'bug' at the time. Kovid's response was that the only thing he could do was to extend the 'looking' time which would slow down all users - not acceptable. Fair enough, I admit my SD card
was rather cheap and nasty
There were 2 workarounds for a slow SD card, at the time:
- restart calibre (Ctrl-R on Windows) with the reader already connected via USB
- use 'Save-to-Disk' rather than 'Send-to-Device'. When the file browsing window pops up the SD card drive can be easily selected
As an aside, I stopped using an SD card shortly after as everything seems quicker and more reliable without, particularly the PRST1. Then again, I only keep 20-30 books on the reader at any one time so it's not as if I've lost anything.