Too good to be true

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by user_none

It will be. I will be adding an enhancement that will prompt where you want the book deleted when you try to delete a book from your library that is also showing on the device.

Cool!

[BookJunkieLI]

I second Sweetpea's cool though I do have what might be a dumb question with an obvious answer. When you click on 'Remove matching books from device' it's only deleting them from the device, correct? It's not deleting them from the device and the library, correct?

[kacir]

Originally Posted by sidd.artha

Loading seems to go slower, ...

Once it loads it is huge in terms of memory. ...

Although we're not talking about an internal database (say the bookmarks in Firefox), but a DB based on the filesystem it would be safe to assume that some changes are going to be made. The checking system is quite rudimentary. And slow. ...

Saving the metadata for a 10 book database is quite ok. But saving the metadata for a 2500 book database means you have to wait about 30 minutes. ...

There would be more things to report, but I already got tired of writing them down and you probably lost your patience to read this.

My conclusion: too good to be true. ...

Well, version 1.0 wasn't reached, but the developers obviously listen to users.
There is new version Release: 0.7.34 [17 Dec, 2010]
that implements quite a few of your desired improvements.
Do give it a try.

[sidd.artha]

Originally Posted by kacir

Well, version 1.0 wasn't reached, but the developers obviously listen to users.
There is new version Release: 0.7.34 [17 Dec, 2010]
that implements quite a few of your desired improvements.
Do give it a try.

You are right Kacir, it's a pre-1.0 release. And you are also right as there seem to be a lot of changes in the latest releases which spell out less memory leaks, faster start up times. Only that the Calibre database is mostly dismantled on my hard drive today. I moved over to GCstar which does not bend under the load on my computer while being also OSS and portable across systems. Well, that's a more experienced software which reached 1.6.1 by the time I moved over and most probably with the list of features included Calibre might be even more impressive before version 1.6.

Most probably I won't be back to Calibre as GCstar book colection database is precisely what I was asking for - no more, no less. I don't do conversion, and, as my virtual library is over 95% in PDF format conversion is not as easy as HTML->EPUB because of the way PDF stores characters and words. I would also have one filesystem structure that holds the books and nothing more as no external reading devices are going to be linked. And the backup, that's the task for a sync app.

I wish you all a great new year and many bugfixes!

[sidd.artha]

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

Something else just struck me: our "poor" poster has a smartphone that requires, from a quick check of a popular provider, a minimum $60 a month phone plan

People from the States seem so limited in their approach from the outside. I hold two phones. One has a prepaid plan and one has a postpaid plan. The Prepaid means 5.5€ a month for 2600 national minutes (that's any phone) and 600 SMS. Postpaid means 3€ and about 0.06€ a minute of conversation with anyone. The prepaid uses a Nokia E50 bought in 2006. The Samsung device is a loyalty bonus for taking up a contract extension so it's free. And it's not really a smartphone although it looks like. The netbook was less than 300€, no strings attached. If any of the judgemental freaks would have read, my work involves a lot of moving around so I'm not a social parasite living off a pension wasting time on some clunky desktop. Sorry to break your dreams, maybe with your income I'd become a useless social care couch potato, but I have to get better deals to support my family.

Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald

I'm wondering what the heck kind of netbook the OP is using since mine can run calibre without problems<junk cut>

I wonder where your keyboard was before as you just dumped wise oneliners.

Originally Posted by Manichean

Bloody well bugger off, will you? This is the prime example for why you are a troll poster versus someone who asks for help normally, neither of which (asking for help and communicating normally) is something I have seen you done.

Mind you, I might say the same thing. You haven't contributed this thread only with repetitive (and redundant) remarks about me being a troll. No help, no value whatsoever to your posts.

I thank those who tried to help, I feel sorry for those who just try to feel superior. You can coment further as my trouble with Calibre is soon-to-be long-gone.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Originally Posted by sidd.artha

...I'm not a social parasite living off a pension wasting time on some clunky desktop...

...I wonder where your keyboard was before as you just dumped wise oneliners...

...You can coment further as my trouble with Calibre is soon-to-be long-gone.

Watch it before you knock pensioners. I worked hard for 32 years to earn my pension (and I have the aches and pains from too many years of hard physical labor, often at as many as three jobs at a time, supporting a family to prove it). If anyone is a parasite, it's you.

There is nothing wrong with either desktops or netbooks, as long as each is used for the purpose it was intended. Netbooks have limited capabilities and if you demand too much from one, performance will suffer. It's like asking an inexpensive, compact car to do the work of a large truck. Netbooks work fine for their intended purpose but extensive computing beyond very light productive work requres the capacity of a desktop or a larger laptop. As I said, calibre works just fine with my netbook (an Asus). There are some bad ones out there (especially the Acer Aspire One) which is why I wondered what kind you used. However, you have chosen to be a sagacious donkey.

There is the one-liner crack again. Some people, like you, are so pathetic, they rate only one line. Go to my profile and look up my past posts and you'll find there are plenty of lengthy, informative posts. But then, mayhap you prefer to revel in your ignorance.

Frankly, your being "long-gone" isn't going to happen soon enough.