I update one at a time. ("edit metadata individually")
How slow? Press 'OK' and count: "One and Two and Three.............." generally get up to Eight or Nine.
updating a database need not be a lengthy business. you simple write a record. the software selects that record and writes it. it's not like it has to rewrite all the other records. doesn't work like that.
So I doubt it's that.
And the computer is doing reads from the disk quick enough. And from Calibre.
I can double click on a book and it opens fairly smartly, whatever the format. Then I can scroll down to the end of the book very rapidly, no problem, check its all there, all good.
It is just this writing of the tag string.
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