11-01-2018, 11:27 AM | #1 |
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How large is your Calibre library?
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Just curious, how many books do you guys have in your libraries? Thanks |
11-01-2018, 12:40 PM | #2 | |
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I set up a banquet table with my HP4C flat scanner for covers, a bar code scanner and laptop (remote desktop connected to the Calibre (desktop) PC Next, I imported all (PRC/Mobi) titles from the Baen CD's (back when Jim made those available to anyone) and the Free Library titles (between those, I had almost a 25% overlap with the paperbacks) So I started with a couple of thousand entries, and it has been downhill since. I used to buy abou 6 Baen Bundles a year, Amazon gets me now that I switched to a Kindle (I wore out 2 Astaks, and the K4 is getting tired buttons. I really don't do touch well.) ~14K entries (I did use epubsplit PI to bust up some Omnibus and anthologies) |
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11-01-2018, 03:14 PM | #3 | |
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I also have a separate calibre library for my 2000 or so hardcovers (scanned covers and manually added author/publisher information) but I've never had the enthusiasm to do the same for my paperbacks which go back to the old Ace doubles. That lack of enthusiasm is mainly due to a desire to avoid doing the same for my wife's Harlequin/etc. paperbacks. |
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11-01-2018, 04:13 PM | #4 |
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My libraries are on a SATA3 Toshiba HDD, the program code and configuration are on a Sandisk NVMe PCIe SSD.
Biggest library is just shy of 131,000; they are public domain documents, not commercial books. I have a Test library which has fewer than a 100 books. There is no significant difference performance-wise between the two libraries. BR |
11-01-2018, 05:55 PM | #5 |
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11-01-2018, 06:20 PM | #6 |
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1033 ebooks and 259 manga. Quite manageable at the moment. I'm a cover and metadata fanatic so all of them have all that filled in.
I had (still do) one mega collection of probably more than 50k books but it's kinda a mess with different formats/scans etc and I never imported them to Calibre, just the ones I read and I'm intending to read. |
11-01-2018, 06:45 PM | #7 |
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A couple hundred "normal" books.
Fanfics (each in separate library)
My manga collection is quite sizeable but is organized through folder structure. |
11-02-2018, 05:07 PM | #8 | |
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11-02-2018, 06:09 PM | #13 | |
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FanFiction.Net, I've been collecting those since ~2008? (when erayd released FLAG). I actually have some older stories in Word collected since 2002 on old CDs. The CDs are probably degraded by now which is sad considering most aren't available online anymore. The Hawthorn & Vine was maybe since 2011/12. AO3 is the newest (since 2014?). I think the fanfics span maybe 20+ fandoms. My Harry Potter fanfic collection is the biggest. HP fandom writers are quite prolific. |
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11-02-2018, 06:43 PM | #14 | |
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For the latter I prefer ink on paper, then its my property to share with whom I ever I please. I give most books away once I've read them, mostly via nearby street libraries. The only thing I hoard are memories BR Last edited by BetterRed; 11-02-2018 at 06:45 PM. |
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11-02-2018, 09:20 PM | #15 |
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20 GB or just shy of 9,000. books. I read a lot, about 3-4 books / month, plus I try use ebooks for my two children whenever I'm able. I also am proof reading 3-4 books / articles at any one time and when I read books in translation, I may have as many as 4 or 5 different translations (along with the original if I can read the language) to go back and fourth. I also have a lot of music books in PDF format.
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