Thread: Pros & Cons of using the Calibre GUI
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Old 08-09-2018, 04:24 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
To any innocent bystanders reading this, please do not use these scripts. You will place undue load on the various servers calibre downloads metadata from, making the site owners lives more difficult and making it more likely that they will implement more rigorous bot detection algorithms which in turn means that metadata download will stop working for all calibre users, not just users of these "scripts". And everybody that uses those services will have to solve more captchas.
People can do what they want but I've been using these scripts for a year with no trouble. I do proxy though Tor using proxychains and I highly recommend using it if doing so.
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