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Old 08-04-2018, 04:47 PM   #10
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Yes, you would be faster. But Calibre is *much* more powerful than that.
Doesn't mean much when I'm waiting for it to load. This isn't a criticism of calibre, I'm just saying some people have very large libraries.

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With Calibre you can combine various search criteria, use regular expressions, ask Calibre to download the metadata for the book from the net, find duplicates using fuzzy soundex search ...
I can do all that from the command line. Faster and better than calibre can.

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I have been using Calibre as a conversion tool too. Then I started to use it to manage my books and never looked back.
The main GUI interface is customizable and you can also use powerful commandline tools installed with Calibre.
I'm aware, I'm using calibredb to add books now. I just don't need it and honestly, it's not suited for doing operations on large numbers of books. I count large as in exceeding 100k.

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By the way ... ever since I got Internet connection at home (at about 2002) I have been running my main desktop on FreeBSD and then Linux. I was dualbooting before that.
That's awesome, I've been using *nix exclusively since 1993.
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