[DNSB]

Originally Posted by theonna

DNSB
Here are my notes with new firmware, the syncing time improved dramatically.
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.
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.

Spoiler:

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.

Going by what you posted above, the time for the Aura to process your uploaded books was around 21 minutes. A fair bit longer than the time I see but not that far off considering I transfer 1800 books and you transferred 2449 -- just checked and your log says 2449 books to transfer but only 1844 were transferred so your times are considerably longer than what I see. Are the ebooks stored as epubs on the Aura or are they being converted on the fly? And what happened to the other 605 books that weren't transferred.

OTOH, your times to transfer from your Mac to the Aura are actually shorter than what I see from my PC. I'm going to have to try a transfer on my iMac just to see if it takes a similar time.

So from 40 minutes for Calibre to process, 30 minutes to upload and 50 minutes for the Aura to process content for a total of 2 hours as you stated in the message where you said I had a very special Aura, you now show 81 minutes to process the books, 6 minutes and 33 seconds to transfer the books and about 21 minutes for the Aura to process the books. I have to ask why those numbers are so different. The total for the last two does land in the same neighbourhood as the total time as I see for a transfer and process.

One of the few items I can think of is if you are you converting the books using the Extended driver to .kepub.epub? If so, whinge at the author of the extended driver and not at Kobo over that 81 minutes to process the ebooks.

As a sop to my own curiosity, what languages are you reading in? If unicode support is all you need to read on a Nook or Sony, I'm going to have to eliminate most of the logographic and right to left languages as well as all those that use a Latin alphabet. If using Japanese, furigana and tategaki are going to need a minimal level of epub3 support. Ditto for vertical support in Chinese and Korean.

Regards,
David