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Originally Posted by theonna
It took Calibre 15min to delete 3000 books, it took Calibre 40 min to process 3000 books, another 40+ to put them on the device, it took Aurora another 30+ min after all that to process those books and actually become useable. And this is after Calibre supposedly already created database. Problem besides time is that Kobo did not even care to create anything to automate managing shelves or libraries for their device, people must rely on Calibre for that functionality.
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Calibre does not put the books into the database, the Kobo does that. See the comments about needing two passes to do some tasks. As for your times, hmmm... 0.3 seconds per book to delete them which includes updating the Calibre database. 40 minutes to process 3000 books by which I'm going to think you mean adding them to Calibre, 40+ minutes to transfer them to the Kobo -- that is ridiculously slow. As for the shelf management, I seldom use it since search works so well. And the vast majority of readers do not add 3000 books at a time. Heck, most of them will not read that many books in the lifetime of their ereader.
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Originally Posted by theonna
As far as book search- english is fine, it is those pesky other languages, Chinese, Hindu, Cyrillic that you wont be able to find, of course if you are "power" user you'd used Calibre or something else to transliterate meta information for your books, but just imagine how faster it would have been if you did not need Calibre, just put your folder organized collection on the device and you are ready to go.
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Considering that Kobo does not as yet support any of those three languages, you might have been better to look for a device that supported your desired languages and had file browser support. Even if you put your collection on the Kobo neatly organized in directories and subdirectories which you can do since your Kobo does not care how the files are organized, if you are not using directory names and file names that the Kobo can display, you are not going to able to do much in any event.
Regards,
David