I have a very large e-book collection. About 7000 books total, about 4000 of them are PDFs. Right now I'm just dealing with the PDFs.
First off, is calibre just not the tool for me? It seems like as soon as I get 1500 or so books into the database it begins to get really picky. It hangs constantly and I'm reduced to adding each book singly. I'm about a third of the way through my PDFs and the pace is maddeningly slow.
The problem is that the naming structure of my PDFs is not uniform. I am intending to load them all into calibre then use calibr to re-name, re-title, re-attribute my books so that I can organize them better. I have sorted the entire collection into individual directories based on the alphabetical order of the filename, but that has only a loose association with the order of books based on author or title.
Is there a way to get better stability out of calibre? or a better option for me?