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Originally Posted by smallhagrid
There were around 600 titles in Palm format which were of zero use to me as-is, so I re-visited that thread (mentioned above) to be reminded of what it suggested.
Then I created a separate partition for the anticipated mess, got Calibre Portable ready - and added the books.
That part went OK - but after that...well...
The tirade begins below here, so be warned=>
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Adding the books did not go OK or the titles and authors would be all sorted properly prior to attempting the conversions. Doing a conversion does not alter the name or folder structure of calibre.
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Originally Posted by smallhagrid
The source was 50 folders named by author containing different amounts of titles in each.
ALL were known, titled works and there were ZERO sub-folders for each author.
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When adding these books it would be best to add one author folder at a time and make sure the newly added books have the proper author and title before moving to the next folder.
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Originally Posted by smallhagrid
Hours of waiting and watching a dominated PC because even with loads of RAM and multiple CPU cores Calibre was ALL that could be running during conversion. The cores were all mostly 100% used the whole time.
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Calibre will use as much cpu during conversion as you allow. Personally I go to
Preferences - Behavior and change
Job priority from
Normal to Low this will allow you to do other things while the conversion is taking place. Either way the cores will most likely run about 100%. You can limit the number jobs per core by going to
Preferences - Miscellaneous.
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Originally Posted by smallhagrid
EVERYTHING was renamed and relocated, and VERY badly.
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This happened during the adding books process and as I indicated you should tend to this step before trying to convert any books.
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Originally Posted by smallhagrid
All said and done - it will now take me DAYS and DAYS to clean up this horrid mess and to put it back into any sort of sane order by author so that they may actually be found and used in my reader.
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Your original source folder structure should have been unaffected by adding books to calibre. I would remove the books from calibre and start fresh by adding one author folder at a time as I indicated above.
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Originally Posted by smallhagrid
I am reminded of being told to 'just use Calibre to convert, remove the files, done' idea and my response is...:
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There needs to be an easier, better way to batch convert files that one already has (And that have no DRM); maybe Mr. Goyal can 'just' add a setting to his work that allows importing & converting without ANY renaming and no rearrangement at all ?!?
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The ability to batch convert books without adding any books to calibre already exists via the command line interface. I am not knowledgeable enough to give you guidance in this area but the manual covers the
topic here. You would need to look specifically at ebook-convert.