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Originally Posted by sealbeater
Somehow, I doubt *VERY* highly you have anywhere close to the same number of books that I did when I was using calibre.
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~10,000 books at the moment. I tried opening calibre in a VM with a smaller library and the open time was not all that different. Oddly, though both cases took less than a second. From starting calibre in debug mode:
With the large library on a physical machine,
0.06] Initializing db...
[0.39] db initialized".
With a 7 book library on a VM,
[0.06] Initializing db...
[0.08] db initialized
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Originally Posted by sealbeater
Your D drive. LOL. Just the fact that you are using windows and a mouse and gui to manipulate your OS is...highly amusing to me. I really don't mean that as disrespect, honestly its just so far from where I am. I am a *nix user. Whatever new books I get, I have a script that I run that postprocesses them, renames, lookups, the whole nine, puts them in a temp dir, I hook up my reader and run another script, all gets copied and file names sanitized and my reader gets unmounted *while calibre would still be loading*.
I don't even have to touch a mouse.
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I get enough command line at work. ESXi, Windows Server Core and 6 or 7 Linux boxes and one lonely Mac OS X system. Note that other than the ESXi servers, the other systems are virtualized. If I move on to the switches and firewalls, I can spend the entire day using Putty for CLI sessions.
While I can make a fire by using flint and steel or a fire bow. I prefer to use a lighter when one is available.
And I still find it humourous that you claim to be able to handle those tasks even using scripts in under 5 seconds. As I said, if nothing else, calibre handles the series information for a Kobo ereader in a much more pleasant fashion than editing the SQLite database. How does your script handle downloading, resizing and inserting covers into the ebook? The same for metadata such as series.
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Originally Posted by sealbeater
Good for you. Personally I have no need for calibre but I'm currently using it again so I can test out using google cloud drive with it. It's not *bad* software tho it has some lame design choices but its' not the end all, be all of ebook management, despite the feelings of people who don't know anything else but windows.
Personally, I found it acceptable even handling the large number of books I loaded into it but the time it would take to load at that point meant that I was obligated to leave it open all the time or wait 15 minutes for it to load. I don't blame calibre, I was impressed it could handle what it did but at that point, it was faster for me to sideload manually but I don't mind at all.
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Oddly, I find your 15 minutes load time to be about as humourous as your reaction to my using Windows. Comparing that to my 4.36 seconds? Makes me wonder just how out of date your mass storage is.
As for using Google cloud drive with calibre? The first question is what are you calling Google cloud drive? Google Drive for home users? Google Cloud Storage for enterprises? A utility that maps Google Drive as a storage device?
The last time I tested on a computer where Google Drive was used to sync, as long as a single computer is used and synchronization was paused before calibre was started and restarted after calibre exited, it seems to work (a batch file took care of that when I was doing some testing). My library backups are synced to the cloud but I found no real advantage to using cloud storage for my live calibre instance.