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After doing some searching online I decided the easiest way to get them organized is to add them through calibre. Since I have so many books, I have been looking into the command line interface, so that the process would hopefully be quicker and more reliable.
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I doubt if the CL will be quicker or more reliable.
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1) Would calibre be able to handle that many books?
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I believe so. Let us know how it works.
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I had also selected to not download the covers and only download metadata. Therefore, I estimate that it would take about 467 hours to download the metadata for all my books!  |
So 4 hours a day it would be less than a half a year. Welcome to ebook management.
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I have searched for a way to do the bulk download through command line hoping that it will be quicker.
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It may be easier to schedule but I doubt it will be quicker.
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3) I have downloaded some plugins providing additional sources to find the metadata (mostly from kiwidude), hoping to decrease the number of books that calibre is unable to find the metadata for. The following is the metadata sources that I have currently selected: Amazon.com, Anobii Fetcher, Barnes & Noble, Edelweiss, Fantastic Fiction, Fantastic Fiction Adults, FictionDB, Goodreads, Google, and Open Library. Could having all these sources selected be slowing down my metadata downloads? If so, which sources would you recommend I use? I only care about getting the metadata and do not care about covers.
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I use Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Fantastic Fiction, Goodreads, Google, and Open Library. But I only use Goodreads to download tags and in order to get things right I usually do one book at a time. Although when I went through and redid my tags I did up it to 50 books at a time.
Your best bet would be to get most of your metadata from the filename as you add the book to calibre even if it means you need to use a good file renamer to get the names in the correct format first. Then you should attempt to extract the ISBN from the books using the Extract ISBN plugin before downloading metadata.
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4) Last of all, is there any other software other than calibre that would be better suited for my needs?
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As BetterRed points out there are other methods to deal with what you want, but nothing as comprehensive as calibre.
Good Luck.