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gt_undergrad · 09-12-2009, 02:52 PM

I have used Calibre extensively in the past year or so after I bought my Kindle. It is great software for organizing the library. I can't believe it is free. Many thanks to Goyal for this wonderful software!

However recently I'm running into more and more problems. The conversion is getting very very slow. I noticed that conversion from RTF to .mobi is usually slower than from htm to mobi in the past. However, even that was acceptable before. But recently, my Calibre version was updated to 0.5.6 and things just became unbearable. When I tried to upload some files it took forever (like an hour to just upload 7 books in html format), and it often crashed my laptop. From reading the posts I learned to turn off metadata reading, and it helped.

But the major problem was with converting them. It often took over an hour just to convert one of them. Occasionally it converted a book in a few minutes, but that is rather rare.

Another problem: Conversion is done in parallel, and converting two books at once uses about 98% of my CPU so there is nothing else I can do. Even surfing the web freezes.

I know there is a newer version out there. But everytime my computer automatically upgraded to a newer version it got a bit slower in conversion so I'm a bit weary. From you guys' experience, should I upgrade to the latest version, or should I go back to an older version?

Any tip on speeding up things?

GT

09-12-2009, 02:52 PM	#1
gt_undergrad Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: Kindle II	Conversion very very very slow .... I have used Calibre extensively in the past year or so after I bought my Kindle. It is great software for organizing the library. I can't believe it is free. Many thanks to Goyal for this wonderful software! However recently I'm running into more and more problems. The conversion is getting very very slow. I noticed that conversion from RTF to .mobi is usually slower than from htm to mobi in the past. However, even that was acceptable before. But recently, my Calibre version was updated to 0.5.6 and things just became unbearable. When I tried to upload some files it took forever (like an hour to just upload 7 books in html format), and it often crashed my laptop. From reading the posts I learned to turn off metadata reading, and it helped. But the major problem was with converting them. It often took over an hour just to convert one of them. Occasionally it converted a book in a few minutes, but that is rather rare. Another problem: Conversion is done in parallel, and converting two books at once uses about 98% of my CPU so there is nothing else I can do. Even surfing the web freezes. I know there is a newer version out there. But everytime my computer automatically upgraded to a newer version it got a bit slower in conversion so I'm a bit weary. From you guys' experience, should I upgrade to the latest version, or should I go back to an older version? Any tip on speeding up things? GT