[manawydan]

Originally Posted by Adoby

Also I would suggest that it is a bad idea to add everything to calibre, and create a huge library full of junk and duplicates.

Well yes and no. I see the point in your suggestion but my library was not that ugly.

I regularely did duplicate checks, metadata was sufficient organised (don't need tags or covers but authros, series, titles, formats and in most cases duplicates were checked and mantained).

And is it not the purpose of a database to collect all data and allow a quick search?
Real libraries do have the books stored in different places but there must be one central organising catalog (aka database) or you will be lost.

You may also use more than one library. For instance one for fiction and one for non-fiction.

I will certainly try a rough splitting. Actually I planned to do this for languages but as with so many projects it always was something to try after the holidays, during the next vaccations, when there is nothing else to do and so on ..

And it was quite conveniient to see at one glance german and english works by one author. If I now split it and want to get the same result I will have to switch library (since I do not think you can run two instances of Calibre simultanously) which - with still big libraries - means waiting time etc.
Not really tempting.

But well, lets see. First the whole thing must run again.

Originally Posted by mbovenka

Yep. My library is roughly the same size as his (90K books, ca, 100GB)

Thanks God, I am not alone.
He is a she btw.

Do you have any problems with your library? Very long loading times for example?