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Originally Posted by BetterRed
5,000 books is not many books, I have a library with 150,000
60+ columns seems excessive, especially if the library contains actual ebooks rather than 'foreign objects' such as music or movies. Composed columns (columns built from other columns) can have a -ve effect on performance
45 plugins seems excessive, although they should only effect start up times, but I would get rid of any I don't actually use.
60 icon rules also seems excessive, maybe you could reduce the number of rules by using Program Mode templates.
As has already been mentioned, use the View Manager (VM) plugin to limit what columns are shown in the Book List. VM will also define the sort order.
Regarding AntiVirus (AV): IMO if you need to exclude your calibre library from the AV you use, you need to get another AV. I run two, Defender and MalwareBytes, I exclude 1 DLL (a Word Addin) in MWB, and nothing in Defender. As far as I'm concerned tey have no discernible effect of calibre performance.
Added: Copying a typical book (1 cover, 1 PDF, 1 DOCX, 1 EPUB, 1 metadata.db) from my Intake library to my Books library takes a second or two, copying a 'book' which has audio/video content (FLAC, MP3/4) or hi-res comics (CBZ) take longer of course. The libraries are on a SATA 3.0 2TB HDD.
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Same here. Almost 20 000 books, 25 columns (with the built-in ones included), 10 plugins, 6 icon rules. 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD. Copying 20-50 books all at once takes 10-20 seconds (I only have standard epub/mobi/azw3 books).
I do use the View Manager plugin and several custom columns are not visible (I need them for calibre catalogs). Also I run Library Maintenance regularly.