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jjmcgaffey · 03-17-2021, 05:38 AM

So I'm an LT and calibre user - theoretically they match perfectly, since most of my ebooks have been entered by importing a calibre-exported database. Theoretically. I'm delighted to see your plugin!

First run - very frustrating. The documentation is findable online (in this thread), but it's not reachable directly from the plugin - so I clicked on the plugin and it complained about no librarything_id column, so I made a librarything_id column (of the wrong type - floating point), which meant I had to restart calibre, then I noticed the part about the librarything_rating column...didn't make it, I didn't feel like restarting... The documentation is really necessary, as it's perfectly possible to make a mess pushing random buttons on the plugin. Is it possible to make a button that's a link to the documentation (and somehow point it out, especially on first run)?

My full LT library is 11,000+ books; my ebook collection is 5,000+. I tried telling LTMatch to look for 10,000 books, and it timed out. So I reduced it to 1000. The loading was pretty fast - less than a minute, I think. The matching took longer, about 5-6 minutes; not unbearable. It's matching very nicely, and finding an awful lot of books I have listed in calibre that aren't showing up on LT (some of them may be matters of edited authors or titles, but determining that will require doing a full check).

The first lot matched perfectly - maybe 50 or 90 books, with just a few gaps. Then there were huge blank spaces on the LT side; not sure why, I'm pretty sure those books are in fact there. Also some complete mis-matches, with low probability; in at least one case, there was a much better match higher up, not sure why it was ignored. But it's not hard to force the match (except that with a list this long, just scrolling through it is hard).

I think I'll start over using only 100 at a time, now that (having found and read the documentation) I understand that once it's matched it doesn't need to be looked at again. Doing 1000 at a time, there's too much chance of a mis-match. So I closed the window without having it accept matches.

Is this useful info? Are there other things you want to know? I'll be trying the plugin again soon, and will check back here to update my experience with it.

I'm having some serious frustrations with the forum - I tried a quick reply and it logged me out, tried it again and it appeared as a blank post and then disappeared entirely. Hoping this one will work.

03-17-2021, 05:38 AM	#16
jjmcgaffey Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2014 Device: Moto G Power (2020), various tablets	Testing the plugin - looks useful! So I'm an LT and calibre user - theoretically they match perfectly, since most of my ebooks have been entered by importing a calibre-exported database. Theoretically. I'm delighted to see your plugin! First run - very frustrating. The documentation is findable online (in this thread), but it's not reachable directly from the plugin - so I clicked on the plugin and it complained about no librarything_id column, so I made a librarything_id column (of the wrong type - floating point), which meant I had to restart calibre, then I noticed the part about the librarything_rating column...didn't make it, I didn't feel like restarting... The documentation is really necessary, as it's perfectly possible to make a mess pushing random buttons on the plugin. Is it possible to make a button that's a link to the documentation (and somehow point it out, especially on first run)? My full LT library is 11,000+ books; my ebook collection is 5,000+. I tried telling LTMatch to look for 10,000 books, and it timed out. So I reduced it to 1000. The loading was pretty fast - less than a minute, I think. The matching took longer, about 5-6 minutes; not unbearable. It's matching very nicely, and finding an awful lot of books I have listed in calibre that aren't showing up on LT (some of them may be matters of edited authors or titles, but determining that will require doing a full check). The first lot matched perfectly - maybe 50 or 90 books, with just a few gaps. Then there were huge blank spaces on the LT side; not sure why, I'm pretty sure those books are in fact there. Also some complete mis-matches, with low probability; in at least one case, there was a much better match higher up, not sure why it was ignored. But it's not hard to force the match (except that with a list this long, just scrolling through it is hard). I think I'll start over using only 100 at a time, now that (having found and read the documentation) I understand that once it's matched it doesn't need to be looked at again. Doing 1000 at a time, there's too much chance of a mis-match. So I closed the window without having it accept matches. Is this useful info? Are there other things you want to know? I'll be trying the plugin again soon, and will check back here to update my experience with it. I'm having some serious frustrations with the forum - I tried a quick reply and it logged me out, tried it again and it appeared as a blank post and then disappeared entirely. Hoping this one will work.