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					Originally Posted by Strether  This was very helpful.  Thanks Harry and Kovid.  I was converting mine one at a time.
 Jim.
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 Whatever you do, don't send books one at a time 

. Always select a block of books, and send the block - that way the block gets sent as a single unit, which is enormously faster, because there's only one "Send metadata" step for the entire block, and that's the slow part of the operation.