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Originally Posted by barryem
I just loaded Calibre on my system and it took about 5 or 6 seconds. The only books in it are the ones I haven't converted yet. I think it said 37 books. Once I convert them I remove them. Actually most of those are books that need some kind of work before I convert them, such as improving the table of contents.
I have all my ebooks on this computer and I can go right to any book in 5 seconds or less. And Windows Explorer is much simpler to deal with than Calibre.
I use Calibre for doing conversions and I also use it's reader as my default device for epubs and mobi files. I don't read on the laptop but I often want to take a look at a book.
Barry
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Interesting. I just loaded calibre on my old laptop (Lenovo W530, I7, 32GB RAM, 1.5TB SSD purchased in Nov., 2010 so 7 years old). With my 8000 ebooks, it took less than 4 seconds to get to the user interface. Type in David Weber in the search bar, sort the results by series and there is the Crown of Slaves series. Total elapsed time ~11 seconds by my trusty digital timer and a few of those 11 seconds were deciding what author/series to look for.
By way of comparison, I opened Windows Explorer from the task bar icon and it took ~15 seconds for me to get from clicking on the icon, clicking on "this PC", clicking on D:, clicking on Calibre Library Backup, opening the Calibre_Library directory, typing a W to move to the authors whose last name starts with W, scroll down a screen to locate Weber, click on Weber, David & Flint, Eric. Hmmm... now which of the files is the 2nd book in the Crown of Slaves series? Well, eliminate 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War. Eliminate Crown of Slaves leaving Torch of Freedom and Cauldron of Ghosts.
Since I now have calibre open, eliminate the time to open calibre and search is pretty damn fast. 2 seconds to locate the In Death series and sort by series, sort by series again to reverse order and there is #39. Windows Explorer? Back out to the Calibre_Library directory, type R, scroll down 2 screens, click on Robb, J. D_ and there we have the series. Sadly, no indication as to which one is #39 in the series.
Once the Windows Explorer method would have been a bit faster. I used to have a link to the library on my desktop and I don't add series info or much of anything to the directory structure. I gave up my fancy directory structure with series info added to names, links in secondary author directories, etc. when I got fully into using calibre. Calibre was just so much less work for me. Add book, update metadata and cover images, series info (if the metadata update didn't do that) and that's all folks. No fiddling with file names, no adding links to allow secondary authors or even primary authors for series such as the 1632 series where quite a few of the books were not authored/co-authored by Eric Flint. Let the computer do the grunt work.