[Rellwood]

Is it better to have more columns containing less info, or less columns containing more info?

Also, what things can I do to speed up my library? I have a lot of columns, a lot of tags, heirarchal tags, long text, and composite columns. I don't know how to weed out the tags - there are so many redundant tags that it would take forever to go through them all. I noticed that recently that updating metadata has taken a big hit in time, and I don't really know what to do to fix it. Also, copying to other libraries has drastically slowed down.

I am not running other programs at the same time, and I have a decent computer.

Any suggestions that indicate where Calibre can be "sped up" by the type of column or tag would be appreciated.

Finally, does "nulling out" columns make a difference? (Job Spy)