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Originally Posted by DNSB
If Gutenberg.de is supplying the html books in .zip files which Gutenberg.org is fond of doing, I've found that I needed to unpack the .zip file into a temporary directory and then import it to calibre. I ended up using 7Zip and calibre from the command line the one time I tried to import ~200 books using a loop in a batch file to step through the directories.
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Hi, I tried that now as well and maybe I got a hint why this takes forever:
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rob@robert-winkler-Lenovo ~/d/g/a/judas> ebook-convert index.html andrejew_judas.epub
1% Eingabe wird zu HTML konvertiert*…
InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running
on /home/rob/dataspace/gutenberg-edition16/andrejew/judas/index.html
Language not specified
Building file list...
IgnoreFile('/home/rob/dataspace/gutenberg-edition16/info/texte/Vom-Antiquariat-zum-E-Text.pdf is a binary file')
IgnoreFile('/home/rob/dataspace/gutenberg-edition16/plautus/asinaria/asinaria.pdf is a binary file')
IgnoreFile('/home/rob/dataspace/gutenberg-edition16/plautus/epidicus/epidicus.pdf is a binary file')
IgnoreFile('/home/rob/dataspace/gutenberg-edition16/plautus/mercator/mercator.pdf is a binary file')
IgnoreFile('/home/rob/dataspace/gutenberg-edition16/plautus/mostell1/mostell1.pdf is a binary file')
~~~
etc.
This indicates that calibre is scanning through all the directories?
By chance, do you have a working script to process a single directory?