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rmzg · 09-26-2016, 08:09 PM

The background:
I have relatively new phone (samsung note5) with the latest (paid) version of Calibre Companion installed.

I have a moderately large ebook library (7000+, epubs) stored in Calibre on a fast PC. The wifi connecting them is AC+ level meaning 200+mbits.

The short issue is that no matter what I try any type of 'book import' into the companion app is insanely slow.

At first I tried connecting the phone as a 'wireless device' and doing the transfer as a push from calibre. That mostly seemed to work as long as I didn't select more than a few hundred at a time to copy but it took on the order of 60+ minutes to transfer 200 books, which is pretty insane.

I gave up on that and manually copied the calibre folder from the PC to the phone via USB (took about 50 minutes total) and then selected that as a 'cloud server' via the connect menu and told it to download everything (because I have to redownload files already on the phone??)

It's currently running and according to its progress meter it's completing maybe one book per minute. This sucks. How do I make it faster?

09-26-2016, 08:09 PM	#1
rmzg Member Posts: 21 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2016 Device: Note5	Extremely slow book import into companion The background: I have relatively new phone (samsung note5) with the latest (paid) version of Calibre Companion installed. I have a moderately large ebook library (7000+, epubs) stored in Calibre on a fast PC. The wifi connecting them is AC+ level meaning 200+mbits. The short issue is that no matter what I try any type of 'book import' into the companion app is insanely slow. At first I tried connecting the phone as a 'wireless device' and doing the transfer as a push from calibre. That mostly seemed to work as long as I didn't select more than a few hundred at a time to copy but it took on the order of 60+ minutes to transfer 200 books, which is pretty insane. I gave up on that and manually copied the calibre folder from the PC to the phone via USB (took about 50 minutes total) and then selected that as a 'cloud server' via the connect menu and told it to download everything (because I have to redownload files already on the phone??) It's currently running and according to its progress meter it's completing maybe one book per minute. This sucks. How do I make it faster?