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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Ah everyone's favorite debate. If you want to get into it seriously, I suggest being more precise. Whey you say calibre is "slow" waht do you mean?
1) Some people complain that the GUI is slow. Other people say taht the GUI is fast enough.
2) Some people claim it is slow with large databases, other people say it is fast enough.
3) Some people say it is slow with conversion, other people...
4) Some people say it is slow with news download, ...
5) Startup times are slow
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If it bugged me enough I'd probably open an issue on your tracker (which I have done before) but a lot of things which I would expect to be pretty much instant seem to take multiple seconds.
Some examples (not including startup time which you've already noted):
- I only have 818 books in Calibre but when I click on the sort keys for the table of books (e.g. Title, Author(s), Size(MB) etc) it takes about 2 seconds for the sort to happen. In iTunes where I have far, far more songs, the sort seems to happen as soon as I let go of my mouse button.
- When I edit the metadata for a book, it takes about 3-4 seconds for the metadata dialog to go away.
- When I click on "Add books" or "Preferences" in the main button bar on top, the new dialog windows that pop up can be seen to draw. That is, the frames are visible and then the window filled in. I would expect that to be close to instant.
- Removing a book takes 1 second or more when I'd expect it to be instant
- After dragging a book from my desktop into the Calibre table of books to import it, Calibre takes about 3 seconds to finish reading metadata even for simple file types like text which don't have any.
- It would obviously be nice if conversion were faster, but this is the one place I would far prefer fidelity and quality over speed (but please work on making it faster anyway
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In general, I think Calibre has had enough features for me many, many releases ago. I would rather see UI annoyances go away first, and the sluggish feel of Calibre to me is one such annoyance.
That said, I think Calibre is great, and the best library manager/e-book format converter collection that I have tried so far.
