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Originally Posted by chilady1
I have about 14,000 books in my library and by using tags, it makes it easier to find what I am looking for quickly.
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I can relate to those struggling with a large library and the time it takes to do a search. One trick I learned in the Calibre forum is to change your search preferences and narrow down the criteria that Calibre searches on. For me, when I search, I am either searching on author or title - that's it. It has dramatically increased the search speed in Calibre, because it is using less variables to search on, and with 14K books, it makes a big difference..
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You know, one other thing I did was replace my main windows drive with an SSD drive (although not for this specific reason). It speeds up the searches substantially, along with Calibre load times -- that may be one reason I don't bother with narrowing down the search (usually) and find the search times reasonable on a large library.
For those with a large enough Dropbox storage, you can move your library into a DB folder and then access your library from multiple computers (but be very careful not to have two open at the same time, as Calibre isn't written to check for multi-user access to it's files and the database can become corrupted).
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Originally Posted by Blossom
My old PC doesn't handle Calibre pretty well so multiple libraries keep it happy. 
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Just stay on your side of the room and practice safe PC'ing until it's gone!
I cataloged nearly all my paper books using a combination of LibraryThing and their cuecat scanner. Makes it a lot easier to do (although still a bit tedious - and you really need a portable notebook computer, so you can do it at the shelves and not have to carry books around). It's one reason I keep the excel spreadsheet, as it also has info on the paper books (which I should enter into Calibre, but have been to lazy to do except for a few). I do try to remember to put audiobooks into Calibre (manually), so that I don't have to search for those, as they are too large to keep on my main computer.
One tip - if you keep your library on dropbox, make sure it isn't in a publicly accessible folder. I've seen reports of people who've had their DB accounts closed, presumably after receiving a takedown notice from someone after finding a file in a google search (most of them were, no doubt, serving files to many people, but it's safer to keep your book files private, just in case).