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Old 12-14-2010, 07:54 AM   #16
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Old 12-14-2010, 09:28 AM   #17
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To be honest, Calibre takes quite a while to run on my laptop. However, that is mostly due to a slower harddisk than CPU. Otherwise it works fine. I manage my books in it and that's it. I don't do conversions with it, so no experience on that side.

I think it is rather rude to rant like this. If you find a problem/bug, create an issue so Kovid and Co can work on it.
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Old 12-14-2010, 10:01 AM   #18
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I'm a bit surprised, as the way calibre works (aka messing up your files), should makes it faster...
When are you going to get over your anal obsession over files and the antiquated folder/filename system of organization?

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...Because some of you are fine with the way calibre works on thier machine, don't mean reactivity shoudn't be improved...
This "calibre is perfect for my use, so it's perfect for everyone" is just anoying. Why such reactions everytime someone dare saying anything wrong about calibre ? Even when said harshly...
I suppose a million or so satisfied users are wrong and little old you is right (that was sarcasm, in case you missed the point, something you seem to be good at).
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Old 12-14-2010, 10:19 AM   #19
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I don't believe anyone would say that calibre is perfect, but it's the best one out there and improving all the time.

I'm looking forward to the calibre replacement program EowynCarter will write to prove that he knows better than everyone else. (who knows he might) But till then I'm very very happy with calibre

oh and @sidd.artha I feel your pain .. why won't Kovid write a version to run on my Commodore 64 ?
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...why won't Kovid write a version to run on my Commodore 64 ?
That would be nice. I still have one.
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Old 12-14-2010, 12:34 PM   #21
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That would be nice. I still have one.
I have a Sinclair ZX-81! Let's see Kovid get calibre into 2k of RAM (it was 1k before I doubled it).

Eowyn, we've told you before, calibre is not a file manager, any more than Windows Explorer is a block/sector manager. Calibre will not be made into a file manager. That's not what it's for. If you want a file manager, your computer came with one. If you want a book manager, that's what calibre is. It's an important difference. And I thought you promised us you were going to stop posting about software that doesn't meet your needs?
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Old 12-14-2010, 12:47 PM   #22
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The only thing I got out of the parents rant was, "It doesn't work on my super low end computer and I don't want to take the time to learn to use a complex piece of software. Make it work how I envision the world should work."
That's the nice thing about Calibre. All the source code is available, so that if the original poster cares to take the time to make it work the way that he wishes it to, he's entirely at liberty to do so.
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Old 12-14-2010, 05:53 PM   #23
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Not that the original poster requested any help. But in amongst his whining and other's responses that they could run calibre on a netbook was the hint that maybe something was wrong.

To the original poster, check out this thread and try again after the next release comes out.
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As I've seen quite a few messages from rich spoiled brats with have a lot of toys lying around the house and I know that your kind has a short attention span I have put this at the beginning instead at the end of my message: please send me a private message and I can gladly forward you some postal addresses where you can make a kind donation with your spoiled kid 2G RAM laptop, your extra ebook reader and all the rest. They are going to be appreciated and it's going to be a lot more help than telling me to upgrade my hardware.

As there seem to be some misunderstandings thanks to my poor command of English and in the light of the helpful answers I have received my original message can be syntetised like this:

Almost each paragraph has an issue. I'll number them.
1. my background. No issue here
2. Slow load on my super cheap machine. It's my fault, sorry
3. It eats too much memory on my netbook even kids in your world find obscene to use Also my fault
4. Autodetection is slow. That was fixed, it's my fault I run something you would not dignify to use Also as my files are mostly PDFs and there are no two formats for the same book I have seen duplicates as two files alike. Here people have the need to store the same book in more than one formats so this is also my fault for not having two or three gadgedts around I sported a possible fix, but here you don't seem to need fixes, as everything works „fine”.
5. The last version gives an error about the meta reader crashing. As kindly was put I don't have to upgrade so it's not an issue, it's my fault
6. Errors do not specify where a book has ended in the filesystem. Guess that can be considered a bug, but nobody noticed it, so probably it's my fault again
7. There is quite a large download for every patch, but as was put in clear I do not have to upgrade. So bug solved
8. Although calibre can get on the web, itself it is to dumb/limited to do the upgrade (I'm having Firefox as an example, but a one of the devs nicely put, this does not apply to complex software which one has to learn in order to use). Again it is my fault for having a low spec machine which can't handle both calibre, a browser, etc. Why save resources when you can waste more. I believe that was the credo which lead to those impressive American cars of the '40s and '50s.
9. Calibre can't handle well and in a simple manner changes to the filesystem. This is my fault twice. Once that I did not recognise there should be a drive dedicated to Calibre which nothing else could touch. And second because I did not spend time understanding a complex application.
10. Redundant already
11. Someone has pointed out that plugins do not get loaded unless needed, although I'm not sure if I can believe that. But it is my fault for not familiarising myself with a complex app.
12. Once a sub-window is open nothing else can be done, even if working on a multitasking system. I thought this is not my fault, but I have checked and AbiWord does the same. And it is not complex, and by the size of it in memory it's at least 10 times less interesting than Calibre. So it's my fault
13. The metadata editor works bad with a large database, sometimes hanging. I used to think this is a bug, but I had no idea how my petty choices of computer can make you uninteresting to a software developer. So, yes, it is my fault
14. & 15. useless closing formulas.

The conclusion it's that you have solved all 12 problems with this thread. 12 out of 12 and not a line of code extra! That is really something!

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I see how you have reached over 1.500 posts. Guess Yahoo Messenger would be much nicer than a forum. I've seen you are trying hard to communicate something, but you are limited to one liners. Try to gather all that info in one batch. Follow my example!

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Slowness isn't a problem I had with calibre. Guess I didn't went as far as that. Calibre was a life savior when i needed batch converting my mobi to ePub, but that's about it.

Then 2500 is quite a pack of books, guess the first import there will be long, no mattter the app.
I need it only for the book management/database.

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2500 books is a small database. I've seen databases more than 10 times that size. Mine is 7 times that size. Initial import into the database can take time, but it only happens once, and if you can find a program that does the initial import faster, go for it.
It's part of what I have and I have stopped adding books in calibre for the time. As for finding another program - I have checked and yes, calibre is open source so your kind of reaction is normal. I thank you for not telling me to make an alternative to calibre in my time.

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It's not Calibre's fault if 1) your internal metadata sucks and 2) you didn't bother to read how to extract metadata externally from filenames using the regex import functions.
Yes, and you did not bother to give anything but the RTFM. Only that the files to regexp are sometimes scan0001. Sure, I might have done each one by hand according to a structured table, but, at that point, I wouldn't have used calibre.

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They wouldn't help. You're not trying to identify bit for bit dupes, you're trying to identify whether it's the same title book written by the same author. A PDF version is a duplicate of a LIT version if it's the same book. It's your obligation to get the right metadata into Calibre. If you don't want to bother, just let Calibre add all the books. The "Duplicates" message is just informational for you.
I find refreshing each time I make the mistake to stumble into one of the OSS wasp hives to be reminded what I want to do and what I should have done. FYI the help expected from calibre was to bring some light into a large heap of unsorted files. So, yes, MD5 would help as some are duplicates. Of course I can sort the duplicates before and save some time, yet, the way error and bad metadata are handled by calibre I have to sort things like that anyway. Say I give a bunch of files to digest, some would end up as Unknown thus as duplicates, some would crash the metadata reader and in both cases I have no idea where the file is: was it imported? or not? and if yes, where is it? Is it under Author, Title or under Unknown/Unknown?

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It sounds like you have an antivirus interfering. My 6-7 times larger DB saves in seconds.
Well, this is the first real piece of information and I sincerely thank you for that. The answer is I don't know, I have no idea and tell me if you know any interaction between calibre and Microsoft security essentials because that would be quite a relief.

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I'm not going to try to convince you to use it. It's not for you. Go elsewhere. I have none of the problems you face, but then I don't run on a tiny machine.
Gosh! You are so cliche.

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I run my Calibre database of 1800 books on a netbook. Sure, it's not quite as fast, but still definitely adequate based on the things that it does.

Collects metadata from the web
Allows multiple formats for a given book
Converts to a variety of formats
Provides multiple ways to view your ebook collection
Allows plugins to deal with DRM
Connects to multiple devices
Has good drag and drop functionally

For me, this is a fabulous program that greatly simplifies organizing my ebook collection.
Most of the books are PDFs, some with OCR, some without, but never two formats for the same book. Once I get to OCR the picture scans the originals are off to Recycle Bin. I see the kitchen sink aproach, and I would be delighted to be able to use each part only if needed. This monolithic aproach is bad, see the long gone debate about OpenOffice.org or Mozilla.

I don't understand the part about multiple ways to view your ebook collecton? Like with being able to browse the covers instead of the list?

Yes, the drag and drop functionality is a big plus. I have to admit that. I would love to say the same thing as you, this is the only reason to write such a long message in the first place.

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I think that there is something wrong with your system.
I have personal experience with a database several times larger than yours. Calibre DOES slow down with the number of books but not as drastically as your system.
It is possible to have somethin wrong. This is why I am here, writing this and not uninstalling calibre. Does it get to over 200MB in RAM as reported by the Task Manager?

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Conversion from lit files takes way too long to my taste, so I use external tool, much quicker but not so sophisticated, but other than that I can't really complain.
I don't have lit files. Come to think about it, I have never used one. But, probably I said it too often, I don't convert books. Having a sweet database would help me sort the babylony on my hard drives and DVDs. And the conversion I need is too complex - doing OCR and restructuring PDFs.

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Looking for duplicates works differently than you think. When I have Robinson Crusoe.epub already in database and when I drop in Robinson_Crusoe_-_D._Defoe.pdf I expect that the system will recognise newly added book as a "duplicate" and merge it with the existing record.
Now I see that people around here refer to this. Although things can be somehow more complicated. To take your example with Robinson, well, you might have an illustrated version, a pocketbook version and a children's abridged version, maybe if Mr. Defoe would have lived long enough a second and a third edition. Now, are these duplicates in your oppinion or not? I merely meant two identical file bitwise.

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I prefer not to use autodetection, I usually use complicated Regular Expressions to get most of the metadata I am interested in from the filename.
I used autodetection as some files are really nicely done, yet, most are not. Given I solve my issues with Calibre I can go for retagging the phisical files the right way.

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I DO wish the Calibre was faster, especially with large number of books, but the slow-down is not as catastrophic as you experience.
Only I don't know how to make it run faster. It loads slow as it's quite a load. I know that autodetection goes slow and I wouldn't care less about it. But enter edit metadata and it goes for at least 3 minutes to reach back to the main interface. Meaning for those least 3 minutes Calibre is completely useless.

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It's a huge application with a lot of functionality. This is the same as complaining Photoshop uses too much memory.
Pardon me, I see you are closely involved with the project and I have meant no flame, although your type seems over sensitive. But maybe, I say maybe, there is some difference between PS and Calibre. And maybe, but only maybe, the memory consumption is justified by PS - taken into account it has to juggle with some millions of pixels, each being defined by a few channels. In my case 2500 times metadata made of UTF8 strings (mostly ASCII by the way) get calibre to its knees. Also PS specifies the need for a highend machine to do some complicated floating point math on all those channels that define the millions of pixels. Do I need a high end machine to organise PDFs? I am sorry, I haven't read that in the documentation. I assumed that reading books can be a task for low end machines so why not organising that activity would mean a lot more. After all, the autodetect phase gone and covers extract calibre should not bother much about the file contents.

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That's the point of metadata...
Sure, in an ideal world. But in an ideal world I would just go to a file server that has everything nicely structured in descriptive folders and just go down/up the tree like structure. No need for an organiser if things are already organised. Can you understand that?

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You can have it use information from the filename if your metadata is bunk.
Sometimes the metadata is ok and the filename is qwerty.pdf. Sometimes the filename is Author, Book.pdf. Sometimes it is something human readable, but not very machine readable like name1_name2_my_title_of_the_book.pdf Surely you can understand my dillema. So, see the above point, if things are neatly done and I use a particular app for reading a particular format why would I bother download 40MB of data each update? Real life my friend.

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Books can have multiple files. This would cause every different format for a book show as a different book.
Yes, I know that by now. For me it was redundant. A waste of space - just take the best option and stick with it. Now, if you have a fetish for gadgets, it makes sense to have say a printable original, than a format for each toy. But, please, do try to understand that the same way that was unconceivable to me, the same way some of the things I do/need for my book collection can be hard to see unless pointed out.

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Calibre supports multiple OS's. Each one having different requirements for installing and updating applications. While an upgrade mechanism would be nice it's not a priority. It's a large difficult feature that will give little gain.
I am not the one to tell you how to run things - it is your project after all. But maybe splitting things up would help. Having something like on one side the database, say SQLite (see Firefox), than one covertor side (see pyrite publisher), maybe an importer/metadata handler and on top of everything a GUI that handles the native interface. Updates would get easier as only one side has to be updated and it opens up a whole new horizon - say ncurses interface? Modularity.

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Again, would you run Photoshop on a machine like this?
So your final answer is I should get a top of the line machine to run this well. Guess I should uninstall calibre as I don't have the money right now. And given a few other examples I know of open source software, by the time I upgrade not only there would be 10 times more features I don't need or probably I would have to pay.

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It runs fine on my 5 year old laptop. It also runs fine on Kovid's older computers.
Ok. And my father is a civil engineer. It would have helped telling me what makes it run fine or how you define fine. See, for me an office pack should start in less than a minute. On the other hand, my mother can double click the OpenOffice.org icon than do something else, maybe call somebody so, although the office starts in 2-3 minutes, for her it can start in 15 as well. Say, I know I am a stranger to you, but can you find time to make an effort and actually get some imagination, try to relate with someone that tells you something does not work well? My mother is well in her 60s, yet she has the good will of explaining to somebody why something works for her instead of slamming up the door with a „it's fine! thanks”.

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Unknown by Unknown is the same book. A book is not a file, it can be multiple files (different formats).
True. From my stand point, when I wrote that message a file means a book. It still means the same thing, but now I understand your point as well.

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What? Supporting various hardware devices and showing their limitations empowers the form that made them and takes power away from you. If the device doesn't support what you want to do that's calibre's fault?
English is my second language and I really have no idea what you are saying there. What I meant in that paragraph was quite simple: if it is called a plug in, surely it could be plugged off. I don't use external readers, so I'd take them off for the sake of memory and CPU cycles. Probably the key is in this paragraph I can't understand, but as fault goes there is no fault. Only that can it do what I need or not.

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That sounds like your main problem.
Having a gadget to carry around? No. It's probably my English. I already have quite a few things to carry around. As a photographer I carry at least one camera. Than maybe an extra lens and an extra battery, a mobile phone, a laptop, chargers for all three. I stopped wearing watches a decade ago.

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A plugin system that dynamically loads the plugins when they are needed. If you don't plug in a Kindle the Kindle plugin will never be called and will never use any memory. All plugins are loaded on demand.
So you mean enable means it might be loaded. And disabled means it will never be called. So once the autodetection is done (for example) the memory is freed of all the detection, cover extraction, etc plugins involved? That would be wonderful. And should be pointed out in the documentation for guys like me who actually don't need to go fiddling with the plugins.

[QUOTE=user_none;1270426]There are a number of metadata sources. Look at the plugins. Some require login information before they can be used.[QUOTE=user_none;1270426]

Yes, isbndb for example.

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The news sources do not bring any revenue to the project. The news companies for the news sources do not pay to be in calibre.
That is a pitty. I have recently read an article about the estimated huge sum Firefox is getting from Google for having them as the default search engine. As on Ubuntu Firefox keeps reinstalling amazon and ebay searches among others at every upgrade they probably get something from them too. And it is normal to have that. After all developers need money just like everybody else and big corporation makes everybody pay so why give them something for free?

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I have 2500+ books and I don't seem to have this problem.
Gee, that's good for you. Would you please tell me how you tuned your netbook with WinXP for this. I sure can learn something from you.

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Admittedly I'm not trying to run calibre on a netbook. I'm not trying to run Photoshop CS5, either, which someone else used for a comparison. Calibre doesn't make a very good ebook reader.
Oh. But surely you can teach me how to do it.

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You're not required to patch calibre. If you don't want to get a patch ... don't! As for what you believe, I can believe that the moon is made of green cheese, but that doesn't make it so.
No. Actually I read the news each time and at least once I was inspired enough to avoid installing one new version that brought an extra problem.

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I believe you owe Kovid and the other devs an apology for your unwarranted assumptions and random insults.
Insults? By telling that a piece of software does not work as expected. Guess the rest of your message will be as useful.

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Again, calibre is not meant to be a book reader to be put on a netbook. That's not what it's good at. It doesn't run on Linux-based readers, either. It's not for your ebook reader, any more than Photoshop is for your digital pictureframe.
I don't use it like that. I specified that in my message which you seem to not have bothered to read. Adio. You seem to add something about you having a lot of toys around the house. If you have so many send me a private message and I'll be happy to send you an address where you can forward some ebook readers - some of my friends do not afford them although they like to read. And they don't come telling people what to do either.

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Ok. I skipped the rest. I don't like useless posts either.

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I'm a bit surprised, as the way calibre works (aka messing up your files), should makes it faster.

Because some of you are fine with the way calibre works on thier machine, don't mean reactivity shoudn't be improved...
In the spoiled kid mentality humiliation takes the prime role. So it's not about making something better. It is about making someone feel bad because he or she can't afford the toys/meals/clothing of the spoiled brats. It is human. Sadly.

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This "calibre is perfect for my use, so it's perfect for everyone" is just anoying. Why such reactions everytime someone dare saying anything wrong about calibre ? Even when said harshly.
The imbecile way of telling it works fine without giving any detail is the way of the open source. I have been around since 1995 and it's always like the monkey scene of Space Oddisey 2001 - „go away, we are playing here”. From this standpoint I am surprised nobody offered me the job to do another calibre so they could see my programming skills.

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I was ok with sigil in version 1.2. Worked fine. Then 1.3 cames on, way faster. I didn't feel the "need" for improvement on the performance side, I still appresiated them. The first version of sigil woudn't have work on my 1G ram netbook, now it don't have any problem.
Could you point out some other book indexing/database? I had no idea what Sigil is, but I see it's a epub creator/converter.

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Correct. However, the parent didn't come here asking for help nor did the parent provide constructive feedback.
Dude, by the smily face attached to the message you seem to be the Photoshop guy. Asking for help? To whom? Ok. I will give it to you.

Can you make Calibre work „fine” on my netbook? Can YOU make the meta editor not hang up? After you're done with that I can ask for more help, but I'm quite sure you won't do a thing even when I ask in plain. This is why I made a list of problems with Calibre.

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For instance, the parent also eluded to the fact that Amazon wasn't able to find his books. Yet the parent also said that he looked though the plugins. If he had actually spend any time doing so he would have noticed calibre has metadata download plugins for six different places.
I will quote myself for those like you:

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Getting metadata from the servers seems to work well, only that you have to close the book you are reading. It was very uncomfortable to do that as books that don't show up in major lists have to be entered by hand. Probably the author has assumed either that there are no books in the world that are not on amazon.com or that you should print each time you want to edit something. You can't do two things with the interface. So first you have to open the book. Than you have to enter the data in the meta editor. Than you have to kill the book reader. And only after that you can save the metadata. Fail to follow these precise steps in this particular order and you have to cancel, go back and retake the steps. And the book should not be opened as there is a need to rename the file which can't be postponed.
Once I am in the metadata editor I can't open the PDF. I have to cancel. Which for some reason on my computer takes time, not like for others which works „fine”. So, if my book, for some reason, is not acknowledged by amazon.com I have to go back, open the book, reenter the metadata editor, switch between the two windows (the PDF viewer and Calibre metadata editor), and when I am done I can't just hit OK because after one minute I will receive something telling me unable to write. So I have to close the PDF viewer and anything keeping that file open and only after that I can hit the Ok to write the metadata. Can you understand that? Because that is the limit of my English skills. I don't care about how many places you can download the metadata. If it fails I have to open the book or print a few pages just to be able to write the fields. Can you understant that?

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The only thing I got out of the parents rant was, "It doesn't work on my super low end computer and I don't want to take the time to learn to use a complex piece of software. Make it work how I envision the world should work."
It's Christmas! Make me a surprise.

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If there were concrete actual issues. Such as incorrect output during conversion there would have been plenty of people helping. If it was a bug in the output code who ever maintains that portion would have looked into why it was happening and would look into fixing it. However, that's not what the parent posted.
See above for the list.

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Oh, COME ON, people. Stop replying to these troll threads.
In other words: if it doesn't work on your machine you are a troll. I did not know that. And yes, by your understanding I seem to have become a troll.

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To be honest, Calibre takes quite a while to run on my laptop. However, that is mostly due to a slower harddisk than CPU. Otherwise it works fine. I manage my books in it and that's it. I don't do conversions with it, so no experience on that side.
It might be my problem too as it is so large the system starts swapping. Also an Atom is a sorry excuse of a CPU for those who run 16 cores or whatever.

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I think it is rather rude to rant like this. If you find a problem/bug, create an issue so Kovid and Co can work on it.
I used to do that. Than Open Source has proven it's a very bad idea. Bugs get closed each time the script kiddy running the show changes the bug reporting system for something cooler. Than, when there is more than one involved you get code rushes when they do like a LAN party and they code. Your bug gets closed because it's probably in the cvs. Well, next major version comes and it's not there, but, hey! you are welcome to repost it to increase our bug solving count. Other times it gets closed because the team changes and the new guy has no idea what is going on for the time being.

So I do keep bug reports to some few apps. The answers here have proven even my initial message won't be taken into account. This answer is to clear my name.

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oh and @sidd.artha I feel your pain .. why won't Kovid write a version to run on my Commodore 64 ?
No, I haven't meant it this way. I pointed out my issues, which, as outlined above seem to be all mine.

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That's the nice thing about Calibre. All the source code is available, so that if the original poster cares to take the time to make it work the way that he wishes it to, he's entirely at liberty to do so.
Oh! Here it is! Now I can rest assured your community threw everything it could at me.

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Not that the original poster requested any help. But in amongst his whining and other's responses that they could run calibre on a netbook was the hint that maybe something was wrong.
Yes, whiny. That is what you get for not bowing to the convictions of the many. Sure, compared to some other communities you are the tiny one, but here you are strong. And united. And mostly helpful. See above - 12 issues solved in 24 hours and not a line of code was wasted.

God bless you and may the public servants, police, doctors, etc be as nice to you and your problems. As I have been cured! Haleluja!
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Now, that was just pathetic. As far as my "one liners" go, you are talking through your hat. The majority of my posts are actually quite detailed and many people have found them helpful or of some other kind of worth. How else do you think I racked up over 57k in karma? The reason I said what I said in your quote was we just had another child ranting about what was wrong with calibre. However, with this latest post of yours, you have exceeded the childishness of even that clown, assuming you aren't the same person.
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Not that the original poster requested any help. But in amongst his whining and other's responses that they could run calibre on a netbook was the hint that maybe something was wrong.

To the original poster, check out this thread and try again after the next release comes out.
Yes, whiny. That is what you get for not bowing to the convictions of the many. Sure, compared to some other communities you are the tiny one, but here you are strong. And united. And mostly helpful. See above - 12 issues solved in 24 hours and not a line of code was wasted.
Amazing! I actually offer you help and you continue to whine about poor poor pitiful you.

We all have to live with our decisions. The computer I use cost 153 dollars on Ebay, nothing flashy but it runs the programs I use. You have a more expensive netbook that doesn't run the programs you want to run. Either live with your decision or change things.

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God bless you and may the public servants, police, doctors, etc be as nice to you and your problems. As I have been cured! Haleluja!
Anyone who comes to this forum asking for help gets a kind word and the effort of everyone here to help them solve their problem. It was apparent that you didn't want help you just wanted pity sympathy.
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I've talked with a friend in the mean time and he really got mad. This overnight scripted hack called a complex software? A buggy stream processor being hailed as good? Hmm... his example was Garmin Map Source loaded with the detailed maps of North America and Europe. On a netbook like mine it does not get over 80MB in RAM. This two bit converter goes up to 200MB for 2 500 books from which about half are detected as novels of the famous Unknown french writer of the past century. Even OpenOffice.org is smaller, and guess what? it can do conversion too. And a lot more. Do you have any idea of the size of Firefox? 8M the installer. And it does have real plugins. When I think of the time wasted on this piece of junk!

PS: for you stupid spoiled brats who feel that my netbook is offensive to your world the offer is still there to take the dated 2GB toys off your hands.

PPS: for those who feel I am ungrateful to some people making something as wonderful as Internet Explorer 6 in the days of Google Chrome 9 I wonder how it would be for you in real life to be treated the way you treat people online.
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I've talked with a friend in the mean time and he really got mad. This overnight scripted hack called a complex software? A buggy stream processor being hailed as good? Hmm... his example was Garmin Map Source loaded with the detailed maps of North America and Europe. On a netbook like mine it does not get over 80MB in RAM. This two bit converter goes up to 200MB for 2 500 books from which about half are detected as novels of the famous Unknown french writer of the past century. Even OpenOffice.org is smaller, and guess what? it can do conversion too. And a lot more. Do you have any idea of the size of Firefox? 8M the installer. And it does have real plugins. When I think of the time wasted on this piece of junk!

PS: for you stupid spoiled brats who feel that my netbook is offensive to your world the offer is still there to take the dated 2GB toys off your hands.

PPS: for those who feel I am ungrateful to some people making something as wonderful as Internet Explorer 6 in the days of Google Chrome 9 I wonder how it would be for you in real life to be treated the way you treat people online.
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I'm curious, do you flame the Adobe boards too because your machine can't play all of the Flash games out there?

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I've talked with a friend in the mean time and he really got mad.
If your alleged friend "got mad" your friends are also, how shall I say it, "special" too.

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This two bit converter goes up to 200MB for 2 500 books
200mb for my 4300+ library too, but when minimized it drops to under 10mb (see attached). What's your point? The developer has acknowledged a certain level of bloat from python and the libraries in exchange for quicker development. Even with the "bloat" optimization and performance have steadily improved.

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Even OpenOffice.org is smaller, and guess what? it can do conversion too. And a lot more. Do you have any idea of the size of Firefox? 8M the installer. And it does have real plugins. When I think of the time wasted on this piece of junk!
Firefox also averages around 200mb and my AV software at peak runs about 200mb during the initial scan. Is there a point your trying to make or is this just plea for attention?

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I wonder how it would be for you in real life to be treated the way you treat people online.
In real life people with your level of ignorance usually aren't as rude in public as you are. Even the local "redneck" population doesn't express your level of rudeness until at least 8 beers.

The good news is, in real life, encounters with folks like you are few and far between.
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Other people in this forum are nice. I am not. So I will say what they won't: You are a spoiled little git who expects to have everything done exactly the way you want it or you will whine, cry, and kick your little feet. You've given us a fine demonstration. But life doesn't work that way.

You chose to spend a substantial amount of money on a netbook, which puts its resources into portability, size, and battery life, instead of spending a lesser amount of money on a much more powerful (but less portable) computer, such as a decent used desktop. That was your choice. Because of that choice, there is some software you will not be able to run. Once again, you are faced with a choice: you can accept that your preference for portability, size, and battery life will preclude you running that software, or you can bawl like a toddler throwing a tantrum in Wal-Mart. You picked the tantrum. And you wonder why people react as though you're a spoiled little child?

Yes, a lot of people here have ebook readers and several computers. Me, for instance. We make our choices. I don't have cable TV. I drive a 20-year-old car. I repair things myself, usually until they fall apart. Splurging on clothes involves a new pair of jeans from a discount store when the old ones have holes. I don't go to movies, concerts, or nice restaurants. I have "lots of toys" because there are lots of other things that most people take for granted that I don't have. It's a choice I've made.

And you made your choices. You chose to whine.
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