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miwo76 · 05-06-2015, 08:55 AM

Hi - just got a Kobo Glo HD and transferring "only" 80 books from a Windows Vista PC running Calibre v2.27.

After initial transfer of my books; subsequent reconnection show that the job description showed that Calibre took about 93 (ninety-three!) minutes to "Getting list of books from Device".

I made some changes by disabling the PDF metadata reader plugin and unselecting the Kobo Touch plugin "Read PDF metadata". When I connected the Glo HD to calibre to check the books on the device - it still took 63 (sixty three!) minutes to get the list of books from the device.

Any suggestions on how to improve the times here? I previously had an Aura for a couple weeks and learned to use Calibre on it before returning it and didn't have any issues. After returning it I started learning to use metadata to create collections and plugin boards for book series sequencing. Nothing too complicated - and only for 80 books - definitely not a huge library. I do have 2 small PDF files (less than 500kb each) and 1 PDF graphic novel - about 30MB in size in my library.

Thanks in advance for any help.

05-06-2015, 08:55 AM	#1
miwo76 Member Posts: 19 Karma: 13128 Join Date: Apr 2015 Device: Kobo Glo HD	Calibre very slow "Getting list of books from Device" - Glo HD Hi - just got a Kobo Glo HD and transferring "only" 80 books from a Windows Vista PC running Calibre v2.27. After initial transfer of my books; subsequent reconnection show that the job description showed that Calibre took about 93 (ninety-three!) minutes to "Getting list of books from Device". I made some changes by disabling the PDF metadata reader plugin and unselecting the Kobo Touch plugin "Read PDF metadata". When I connected the Glo HD to calibre to check the books on the device - it still took 63 (sixty three!) minutes to get the list of books from the device. Any suggestions on how to improve the times here? I previously had an Aura for a couple weeks and learned to use Calibre on it before returning it and didn't have any issues. After returning it I started learning to use metadata to create collections and plugin boards for book series sequencing. Nothing too complicated - and only for 80 books - definitely not a huge library. I do have 2 small PDF files (less than 500kb each) and 1 PDF graphic novel - about 30MB in size in my library. Thanks in advance for any help.