How many books?

jekkii · 01-19-2011, 03:53 AM

Could anybody tell me how many books can reasonably be in one library?
I have total appr. 10000 titles on CDs. Till now i have transfered 840 books in Calibre, and the whole process is pretty slow.
Best regards

itimpi · 01-19-2011, 03:57 AM

I do not think there is an upper limit. I currently have around 11,500 books in my library (each one in a variety of formats). I have heard of others with 30,000 or more.

Having said that the process of adding books can take some time - particularily if you are trying to update metadata at the same time or convert to other formats. I have built my calibre library up in stages over a couple of years.

DoctorOhh · 01-19-2011, 03:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jekkii

Could anybody tell me how many books can reasonably be in one library? I have total appr. 10000 titles on CDs. Till now i have transfered 840 books in Calibre, and the whole process is pretty slow.
Best regards

I currently have 2 libraries 1 is a working library that has 12500 books and a second finalized library that has 5000 books in it. Calibre doesn't blink an eye in handling either library.

jekkii · 01-19-2011, 04:59 AM

Thanks!

darknessangel · 01-19-2011, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by dwanthny

I currently have 2 libraries 1 is a working library that has 12500 books and a second finalized library that has 5000 books in it. Calibre doesn't blink an eye in handling either library.

I think he refers to adding the books not handling the library.

jbcohen · 01-19-2011, 08:04 AM

Personally I think that the number of books that you can put in your reader is bounded by the amount of memory that reader and the SD card. I did a search on Yahoo and there are no answers to that question but the concensus is there are approximatly 4 million photos per 8gb sd card. So sicne a book tends to be bigger then a photo I would suppose approximatly 2 million books on your SD card depending on size of the book. As long as you don't go putting Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series on the SD card, those are extordinarily large or some of the Harry Potter series are rather long you should be able to get away with approximatly 2 million books. Then when you reach that limit you could always swap out for a new SD card and keep going.

Manichean · 01-19-2011, 08:19 AM

I think your numbers are wrong there. Just doing a quick order of magnitude calculation, with 4 million pictures on an 8 GB card you get about 2 KB per picture. That's somewhere around stamp sized... My photos are about 1-2 MB per picture on a 4 megapixel camera.
My books tend to be around 0.5-1 MB. On my readers' card (256 MB) I have about 180 books, some of them about 20 MB (lecture scripts, don't ask).

However, I totally fail to see how the number of books on your reader connects to the number of books you can have in your Calibre library.

DoctorOhh · 01-19-2011, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Manichean

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Originally Posted by jbcohen

Personally I think that the number of books that you can put in your reader

I totally fail to see how the number of books on your reader connects to the number of books you can have in your Calibre library.

You are correct the topic here was how many books in your library, which obviously has nothing to do with SD cards or readers.

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jekkii Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: none	How many books? Could anybody tell me how many books can reasonably be in one library? I have total appr. 10000 titles on CDs. Till now i have transfered 840 books in Calibre, and the whole process is pretty slow. Best regards

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01-19-2011, 03:57 AM	#2
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,552 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	I do not think there is an upper limit. I currently have around 11,500 books in my library (each one in a variety of formats). I have heard of others with 30,000 or more. Having said that the process of adding books can take some time - particularily if you are trying to update metadata at the same time or convert to other formats. I have built my calibre library up in stages over a couple of years.

01-19-2011, 04:59 AM	#4
jekkii Member Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: none	Thanks!

01-19-2011, 08:04 AM	#6
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,025 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Piper College Device: Samsung A21	Personally I think that the number of books that you can put in your reader is bounded by the amount of memory that reader and the SD card. I did a search on Yahoo and there are no answers to that question but the concensus is there are approximatly 4 million photos per 8gb sd card. So sicne a book tends to be bigger then a photo I would suppose approximatly 2 million books on your SD card depending on size of the book. As long as you don't go putting Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series on the SD card, those are extordinarily large or some of the Harry Potter series are rather long you should be able to get away with approximatly 2 million books. Then when you reach that limit you could always swap out for a new SD card and keep going.

01-19-2011, 08:19 AM	#7
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	I think your numbers are wrong there. Just doing a quick order of magnitude calculation, with 4 million pictures on an 8 GB card you get about 2 KB per picture. That's somewhere around stamp sized... My photos are about 1-2 MB per picture on a 4 megapixel camera. My books tend to be around 0.5-1 MB. On my readers' card (256 MB) I have about 180 books, some of them about 20 MB (lecture scripts, don't ask). However, I totally fail to see how the number of books on your reader connects to the number of books you can have in your Calibre library.

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