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Originally Posted by stumped
i am still missing the explanation of how sealbeater will ever manage to actually read that two million book collection
maybe he reads VERY VERY fast, or maybe he has a severe case of undiagnosed kleptomania. my money is on the latter.
I used to have a well paid job also, but paying for 2 million books at say $5 per book is ten million dollars. not something your average very well paid job can fund.
so I allege piracy, also.
and a final debunk - from post 9- "10k books is not a even a 1/3rd of what is on my e-reader". Seriously? what mass produced e-reader handles 30k books. Is this one he built in his spare time, while not reading his 2 million books ?
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Since, these books are 'at home' and hidden from the boss, I will assume they are not a
work related Library (my old company HAD a real, technical library for the use by the engineering staff). I can't imagine a 'private individual' needing to deal with that many BOOKS (I believe at least 1 of our members, catalogs papers. those can be small, short reads.)
Calibre can't deal with IMPORTING massive amounts of books in a
single go. That's it. Feed it batches and it will chomp them down with ease.
The big task, is hammering the lousy metadata into something of beauty
, that take TLC and time per book. (When I first got Calibre, I imported all the books (single format) on the Baen CD's. That took a bit of time. It took
DAYS Weeks to properly Tag the series and metadata.
While I have never seen startup times as low as reported (numerous systems. nothin higher than a core duo
), from the time I double click the icon on the desktop, to full user control of the GUI, is under a minute. No fancy SSD needed.
I also tend to leave Calibre running in background, so the OS discovering the USB device, is the more time consuming part of the transfer process. So the
startup time argument is
