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Old 11-04-2017, 10:43 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
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.
I'd already seen that on books I'd converted by hand, though hadn't understood why it was so much faster. But I would never have known that I could mass convert the books, nor how to accomplish it. Calibre is busily converting 501 books.

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