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Originally Posted by theducks
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).
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Exactly! My jobs have had the same.
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Originally Posted by theducks
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.)
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Well, I guess that's one of the differences between you and I.
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Originally Posted by theducks
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.
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I agree but I distinctly remember running into issues after half a mil. It got to the point where I would rather blow out my then .5 mill calibre library and start over with the scripts.
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Originally Posted by theducks
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. |
And...interestingly enough, that's where my scripts are coming in handy. Not *mine* but the guy who wrote it and my incorporations. They so far are proving to be a very handy way to "pre-process" my books. So far, the metadata lookups in calibre have been much easier as I always have the correct ISBN, regardless of my regex missing some books.
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Originally Posted by theducks
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 really didn't want to get into technical specs.
AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight-Core Processor
SSD
32G of ram
ZFS
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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  |
I do too but honestly, why bother when i can do the same stuff calibre can (enough for my purposes) without it?