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Originally Posted by bsk
I have a couple hundred books, many of which are fairly large PDFs. The rest of the sync went faster (I forgot that my library was sorted descending by size!), but it was still quite slow overall. Most of the time is being spent actually downloading the books from Calibre, which seems to be going at about 200 kbps or thereabouts judging from a few sample books. (My book library is multiple gigabytes.)
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Ahhhh...
CC can't extract metadata from a PDF, so it sends the entire file back to calibre for analysis. If the files are large, this will definitely take time. A long time.
With PDF it is always faster to transfer them via CC then to let CC's scan find them.
As for speed, that depends on a lot of things. I just ran three tests with a 13 MB CBR book.
1) Laptop on WiFi, device on different access point: 196 seconds, or 530Kbit/sec
2) Laptop on cable, device on WiFi: 8 seconds, or 13 Mb/sec
3) Laptop and device on same access point in same room: 23 seconds, or 4.5Kb/sec.
I don't know how your Mac is connected, but I suspect it is by WiFi. That, plus possible channel collision from neighbors, could account for the slow transfer rates you are seeing.
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By the way, I'm also seeing ads whenever I press "back" out of the default reader to CC. Is this the Nook's fault, or CC's?
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CC has no ads at all in any version, so I must assume it is the Nook.
You are very welcome.