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Originally Posted by bigjaba
Hello,
I'm an happy user of Calibre software which is a VERY good piece of software.
Since a few days, I was building various libraries (1 per Letter).
Unfortunately, I'm now UNABLE to switch to some past created libraries as the quick switch only shows 8 libraries in the right pane.
Taking one, it shows some others ....but I'm unable to see all those I created (10 currently).
Am I doing something wrong? Can you help me?????
Thank you very much in advance for your help  |
Technically you're not doing anything 'wrong', but there is a limit on the number of libraries calibre supports - I think its 20ish, with 8 in the quick switch list.
But you are doing something which is questionable in the sense of 'why would you want to do that'.
By segmenting your books into multiple libraries based on 'letter' you are denying yourself access a lot of calibres capabilities, especially grouping and searching etc.
If you are thinking it will be more efficient then that's probably not true. I have a library with 20,000+ books and I believe there are others with more than 50,000. Calibre does not interrogate the book folders as such, the data about the books (the metadata) is stored in a database file, for which there is one per library.
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