[Giuseppe Chillem]

Hello,
it is the second day I am using calibre.

Yesterday it crashed while importing my ebooks (over 1000). Today I have split the library in 10 parts to avoid the crash. It worked !

Here is the experience which results from the first 36h of use

1) There is no date-time of addition, only date. This is a problem: if you add files to a huge DB and then you want to rename whose have a bad import name you have to scan the whole DB. Having Date-Time together you can sort via this field and all the lastest entries will be at the top or at the bottom of the list. This will make finding bad book names easier imho.

2) As I have written the program crashed while importing 1041 books. This creates a dangerous situation. Calibre seems to recognize same file by bookname. You can have duplicates in 2 situations. The first: Filename is the Same; The second; Tags of the files are Unset and this lead to duplicates. If the program crashes and/or you reimport an already imported directory there will be both of those 2 kind of duplicates. Instead the program should be able to skip file which are physically the same from files with the same inferred tittle.
Physical Sameness should be taken into account when importing files. It is easy to understand if the same physical file has been alread imported and so it need to be skipped: use a combination of CRC32 and SIZE. Add those field to the DB. It will give 99.9999999% of accurancy.

3) Auto Tagging: Many of us have already created some directory structure to categorize books: one dir = one or more tags, all the same. During import it would be good to automatically select one or more tags to be set into the imported books

Ok, that's all.

Giuseppe Chillemi