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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
If you do on-the-fly conversion, does Calibre keep the converted books in its library or are they gone as soon as they're sent to the device?
If the converted copies don't ever get stored in the Calibre library, that would explain why it does a send immediately after conversion. Imagine Calibre crashing at book 1999 of a 2000 book transfer and needing to start all over again.
One trick I use to speed up sending thousands of books to a device (assuming embedded book metadata does not need to be updated): - Use "Save to disk" with "Update metadata in saved copies" unchecked to save books to a folder on SSD.
- Exit Calibre.
- Copy the save to disk folder to Kindle using FastCopy, TeraCopy, Robocopy, etc.
- (optional) Start Calibre again to update device metadata cache (metadata.calibre and covers?).
This shaves off around 40% from the transfer time for me (practically pure text, fairly small file sizes so relatively large overhead). I also find it useful being able to skip the metadata cache update when I'm in a hurry. |
OTF conversion (format was not there), leaves it as part of the Library.
I think, the in book (format exists) metadata happens fairly quickly.