09-25-2013, 12:49 PM | #61 |
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Calibre's pretty snappy on my laptop, with 22934 titles in it. To be sure, my machine is a fairly beefy one with an i7 CPU and 8GB of RAM behind it, but I do believe that there's a definite speed increase since the v1.0.x releases became available.
Personally re: this new library manager--I'm willing to try a new thing, but I'll happily wait till there's a beta or actual release version to try. Meanwhile I'm sticking with Calibre, since I'm fairly well invested in its ecosystem by now. Definitely need to clean up my library though: it's rather haphazard in the extreme in spite of the valiant effort of Calibre's database to make sure things are right, books and metadata-wise. Tags in particular have gone from messy to mutated alien jungle full of carnivorous plants. Might just nuke it and start over properly before I get to 100k books and lose the will to clean things up permanently. |
09-25-2013, 12:53 PM | #62 |
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I started that project a few weeks ago. I dumped all Public Domain works into a "Dump" folder, and started off with *properly* importing and tagging my bought e-books. After that, I started with the PD authors I had read something from already, knew about, or heard about.
It's going fine; I just do 10 books a day or so, just like I ripped 10 CD's a day until I was done rebuilding my music library. |
09-25-2013, 01:39 PM | #63 | |
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Really, the Archive of Our Own is awesome for downloading fics for offline reading when paired with calibre and the FFDL plugin: but their tagging system, or lack of one makes me want to shoot something when I see the jumble of tags in calibre courtesy of the downloaded metadata. I like the canonical tags on AO3 sourced fics, and there are freeform tags that are particularly useful. However downloading that data also entails downloading useless drivel in the tags too and it drives me crazy as well as slows tag browsing. How many times must I delete tags that go along the lines of "I was drunk gaiz!" and "OHMAHGERD I HAVE SO MANY FEEEELS"from my library? |
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09-25-2013, 02:01 PM | #64 |
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09-25-2013, 02:34 PM | #65 | |
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I use nook simple touch and it supports folders. So currently I just copy the book folder as such to nook/sd-card. If I can have calibre support the folder structure while exporting, I will probably use calibre. |
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09-25-2013, 02:45 PM | #66 |
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09-25-2013, 03:02 PM | #67 |
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Katsunami is undoubtedly the better person to ask where these things are concerned.
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09-25-2013, 03:16 PM | #68 |
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Thanks for posting this. I have actually been thinking Kovid should either do an IPO or start selling it. I have donated a couple times, because the use I get our of Calibre is at least as good as Quicken. And I get updates every week!
Getting all my books into Calibre and in the cloud took a lot of evenings, fixing up metadata, downloading cover, etc. For that reason, any competing program would have to promise to read the book to me, for me to switch (not really, I don't like being read to). Now that the virtual libraries are available, I don't see a reason to even look elsewhere. I promise to love and cherish, until my ereader gives out! |
09-25-2013, 03:43 PM | #69 |
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There are people that are way beyond me when it comes to using Calibre; like the plugin writers for example I can do medium to slightly advanced stuff, but there's a lot I don't know (yet) because I've not needed it (yet).
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09-25-2013, 04:13 PM | #70 |
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I'm sure there are, but compared to me you're bound to be the Einstein of Regexes and most other things Calibre-related.
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09-25-2013, 05:01 PM | #71 |
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Thanks for the compliment, but I still think you're overestimating my Calibre capabilities
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09-25-2013, 09:17 PM | #72 | |
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I export books from calibre to nook touch as Genre\SubGenre\A\Author\Series\SubSeries\01.00 Title with Subgenre, Series, Subseries and Series numbers generated only when they are in the metadata. This system is not ideal for series with multiple authors but as I have only one such series havent had any problems. Truth is chaley who helped me with my export regex could probably do that as well but I never asked. |
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09-26-2013, 08:22 AM | #73 | |
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How do you set the genre subgenre etc.? Is it possible to edit/update them manually? I have a BIG collection of books that I want to import into calibre. Is it possible to import my folders into custom fields/columns or as genre/subgenre etc.? Also, I thought calibre automatically synced your books when nook was connected to PC. Or is it that we have to manually export books to NOOK? |
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09-27-2013, 08:09 AM | #74 |
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As for me and my books, I will always use Calibre. I remember downloading it with version 0.4.something or 0.3.something All I know is that I could never manage all the books I have. To be able to change the cover to something I like or just have a plain cover with title and author name. I love Calibre and will never use any other program.
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09-27-2013, 08:11 AM | #75 |
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"If you want to replace Calibre, then replace it, not use it to drive your own product. At this point in time, this software only seems to be a new front-end / user-interface for Calibre."
So you're saying that making an alternative front-end to Calibre's GUI should be dismissed as a valid project? He should either rewrite the back-end too, or give up? Personally I think the back-end is where the real power lies, and when it comes to designing new approaches that get that power into the hands of more users, I'm all for it. Calibre's front-end is gross (IMO) and something less 1995-looking would be a pleasure to use. |
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