Thread: How many books in a library?
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Old 04-29-2019, 09:36 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by ilovejedd View Post
Curious, large PDF manuals?

My metadata.db is 30MB for a 2.5GB library (if I keep just EPUB format, then library is only ~500MB).
No, that's only 1.5MB/book, roughly, 80% EPUB. My metadata.db is about 600MB. So assuming the DB size goes up linearly with the number of books (and the average book size stays the same) that would make a 6TB library 3.5 million books and a 7.2GB DB.

So I rounded up to 7.5 GB.
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