Thread: Pros & Cons of using the Calibre GUI
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Old 08-07-2018, 12:27 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by sealbeater View Post
One of the ways Calibre sucks for large libraries? Slow metadata lookup. The author has gone on record saying that the metadata lookups are slowed down to not hammer the websites. My way, i can just use screen and spawn my script as many times as I like.
Which means you are hammering the websites to get the metadata. And that can lead to blacklisting your IP by those sites. It will depend on the site, but Goodreads didn't like 150 lookups in about a five minute period for me last night.
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