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Originally Posted by McHunter
Hello...
is there a limit with how many books at once the plugin stops working,
and it is a problem of calibre or the plugin?
I have 2000 books in my library that I try to update at least once a month
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The plugin can handle that, and Calibre doesn't care. The
websites however, usually really don't like being siphoned like that, and some ban your IP for a little while if you do it too much. That's why the plugin forces a slowdown on the downloads for those sites.
The correct (or at least most polite) way to update stories is to only select those you know are updated, usually by way of mailed notices from the sites. Updating at least once a week instead of once a month can also help if you have many stories updating often.
I have about 500 in-progress stories, from 5 websites. My mail client filters all incoming update notices in a separate folder, and flag them automatically. Every day I look at which stories have a notice, and update my favorites and whichever I feel like reading, and unflag the notices. There's seldom more than three or four, max.
That way I only update those stories I'm reasonably certain I'll read, it takes no time to update, and I know which stories have updated on the site but not in Calibre.
There was a time I thought about writing a plugin to do all of that directly in Calibre, but JimmXinu noted that giving a plugin access to your mail wasn't perhaps the best idea. I haven't thought of a better solution yet that'd work for people that don't have their own SMTP/IMAP servers at home...
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