Dealing with very large library
I've just passed 150,000 ebooks in my calibre library. I moved the database to my local SSD drive, so it starts up fairly quickly (about 30-45 seconds), but I'm starting to have a problem with the actual ebook files. The problem is that there are over 65,000 directories in my calibre folder. It's getting impossible to manage that many subdirectories. It's taking longer and longer to batch add more ebooks. (I've managed to speed up the conversion by a factor of 50 by just making the 'temp' drive a ram disk (16GB), so I can convert them all to MOBI (I have a kindle fire), but the process of adding another 5000 books today took almost 2 hours. I've been thinking of moving the calibre folder to my NAS device, because it can handle millions of files without slowing down, but I did a test, and estimate it would take me close to 100 hours to move them all, don't want to waste 5 days if I don't see a good speed improvement.
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