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Old 06-09-2013, 01:03 AM   #196
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DNSB
Here are my notes with new firmware, the syncing time improved dramatically.
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I also find it hard to comprehend how you continue to ignore a solution that works for locating books and continue to kvetch about how dumping the database and going to a file browser would cure all your issues.
I don't ignore your solution, more than 70% of my books are not in English, so I can not search for them. Kobo is fine displaying them so is Nook, Sony and Kindle- they all have unicode support. Neither can search them. File manager will not solve all my problems, but it will make my library by far more convenient for me.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
OTOH, I have to wonder why you are reloading the books into Calibre each time? Can't you simply load them into Calibre once and then use that library which would save you 40 minutes? And I have to wonder about the computer you are using. On my iMac, it takes far less time to copy the books to the Aura from Calibre, on my Lenovo laptop, it takes a couple of minutes less so 15 minutes instead of your 30 minutes. Then about 10 minutes for the Aura to process the books.
I put my specks under the spoiler. I do not load my books into Calibre each time. I use the same collection. I also did not run epub validity checks on them, but I've loaded those same books on Nook, Sony and Pocketbook readers with no problems or need for extensive syncing, or even need for Calibre. I did relog this time on my Kobo to start with fresh database and deleted all the books from it as well. So all the times are for putting fresh collection of books on the new Aura.
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Mac OS X 10.8.3,I7 3.4 GHz, 16GB 1600MHz DDR 3
Calibre version 0.9.34
Kobo Aura HD Firmware 2.6.1
21.33
started, 2449 books to put on the Kobo Aura,

Uploading books, processing books
10min-12%.
20min-21%
22.10 at 34%…
Calibre said it used 35 min.
22.19 50% Calibre said it used 44 min.
No books were sent to device yet, still processing.
22.33- hour in the job, 70% processing, Calibre says 57min working.
22.56 Calibre worked 81 min 100% processing
Now we transferring books to the device 12% in one min.
23.03 Done with transfer total time with processing 87min33sec
23.04 Calibre is done. Database size on the device 2mb.
23.05 Ejected Aura
It is processing content.
23.10 35% 23.15 64% 23.20 89% 23.25 94%, 23.26 done.
Added 1844 books. Database 159.2mb Occupied space on Kobo 1.53 GB
Total time 1 hour 53 minutes.
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