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Originally Posted by mstevens
I'm stuck on "Reading Calibre book list" for an hour with no progress indication on my iPhone. My iPad does appear slowly to be loading data from the library.
3229 books on a Calibre server running in raspbian on a raspberry Pi. There's no difficulty opening the server webpage either on the local network or across the internet. Calibre Connector on the iPhone almost instantly found the sole library, so I think it is connecting to the server and pulling at least some data from it.
Any clues what might be going on here?
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The program uses the json interface which means that the entire database is sent in one big dump. It generally takes about 20 seconds on my system to get past the json dump and start downloading books. How long it takes on your system depends on the number of books and the speed of your system.
The initial load for a 3000 book library can take some time. My 4700 book library takes about a half an hour for the initial load.
If you go to the FAQ on my webpage, I give a technical explanation of what is going on and why the initial load takes so long. That's the weak spot of the program. Hopefully this year's iOS update will let me make it more robust. I wrote the program for my use and use it every day, so I go through the sync/meta update process every time I buy a new book. The good news is that once you do the initial load and get all your ebooks onto your mobile device, downloading a couple books only takes a couple of seconds after the json dump.
On your iPhone, it sounds like it isn't actually connecting. Did you go through the initial load process on the iPhone? i.e. scan for server, load libraries, save parameters, initial load? As I mentioned above, you should see progress in less than a minute.