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Originally Posted by eschwartz
When watching a movie, the way you use the computer is by looking at it as opposed to touching buttons. 
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this is actually the right comparison don't see what's so horrendous about it all.
In both cases the computer has no buttons touched when doing a background task & leaving your desk or when watching a movie
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
And there is no excuse whatsoever for calibre, or most applications, to override user preferences for going to sleep.
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you're right it should always be an option of course. and in most software keeping awake the computer is an option ..
don't see where I implied that it should be imposed on everyone ???
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
In fact, offhand I can ONLY think of the specific instance of media players as something which should keep the computer awake (though I could theoretically be overlooking something).
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*Media re-encoding (particular x264 with insane profiles) could optionally prevent it although the high process usage should in theory be enough to prevent sleep, but again depends on user settings.
*Archiving
*Uploading
*Downloading
*Scanning for viruses
*Hard disk checking
*Burn out testing of processors/memory/graphic cards, for stability testing & overclocking
*Application fully automatic updates/installations (such as windows updates, you don't need to be in front of the computer for them to complete, but sleep would prevent them from being done when you return to it)
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there's probably more stuff out there that can be done unattended if the computer is not sleeping. Freeing the whole computer ressources for when the user is back if he would want to make use of them.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Thank you for confirming for us all that calibre is working as intended.
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huuuuu ... come down off your high horse ?
I was just making a little suggestion, thought it would be a good idea, apparently it's not. Well nobody's hurt so have a nice day.