On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:58:00 +0000, Kie <kie@home.now> in
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<r40kebdfhcb2f2hkjuih6k5maorq4quv93@4ax.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:38:52 -0400, Hawkeye <Hawkeye@MASH.com> wrote:
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>snip
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>>When I first load a book to one of my Calibre libraries the only thing
>>I try to insure is correct is the author and title. I check with the
>>plug in for dupes on a binary basis. I have yet to decide how I can
>>be sure a particular copy of a book is good without reading it, so
>>when I read a book and hopefully have a mostly error free copy I run
>>the metadata download, get the final cover, code the copy as having
>>been read, and file. I then delete all other copies of the book.
>>
>>If I haven't read it I have multiple unchecked copies that may or may
>>not be any good. Until I am ready to actually read the book I really
>>don't care. The interim format is irrelevant - I convert when
>>convenient.
>>
>>It appears library size depends on the machine you use (memory and
>>speed), and I have not tried any libraries over 40,000 volumes yet. I
>>have an i5, 3.5 gHz, with 8 gig of memory.
>
>When I start editing books, which I'm doing now, I like to do quite a
>few hundred, put them on my eReaders, then I don't use calibre again
>for a few months except for new books by a few favourite authors. I'm
>also doing books for other people so I might as well get the best
>version in the first place. It's a lot easier now with the retail
>versions and with some authors, their entire back catalogue has been
>re-issused as eBooks. So once these books are edited I'll only need
>to update with new books.
>
>Only 40,000 books?
That was a maximum of 40,000 per library. I have over 280,000 books
in 11 libraries plus five more 'special purpose' libraries I use for
things like control files. I also have almost 180,000 books that are
exactly as I have downloaded them with no editing fixes of any kind.
They are not even all in author-title format.
> I found this thread whilst on the mobileread forums
Thanks for the reference.
>
>http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=271870
>
>Maybe it's just a wind-up but it made me smile. I've got several
>hundred thousand books on an external hard drive but I'm never going
>to add them to calibre. When the DMCA takedowns started in the TV and
>movies groups, I panicked and downloaded all the books in every
>newsgroup back to 2008 and have continued downloading all of
>pychopaths posts (and BlueDenim's and TreeSavers).
That sounds like what I have done and continue to do.
> They're all on an
>external hard drive filed by first name (not in individual author
>directories) and it's a useful resource to browse through but I'm
>never going to read 99% of them. Too much "adult erotic literature".
>I see a series, think it's worth a look and get directed to Fantastic
>Fiction for Adults. I know it's a popular genre of book but the
>people on IRC need to get out more.
I too spend a lot of time weeding out the unwanted junk. I am aware
my junk is someone else's treasure, but it's my files and my call.
There is no way Ii can possibly live long enough to read everything I
currently have and wish to read but that's OK.
>
>I'm only going to use the calibre library for books I've read and want
>to read, so probably not more than a few thousand at most.
I am constantly running across a new author I have not heard of before
but am hooked on the spot. While I have a lot of junk I usually also
have all of the books by this new (to me) author.
> I always
>have a problem deciding what to read next after finishing a series of
>books so getting the tags right is going to be important and then I
>can browse through the books quickly. I also have quite few books that
>aren't part of a series, that I wanted to read and never have because
>they get lost in the few hundred books I store on my eReaders. There's
>several options for calibre so I can highlight books that would
>otherwise get missed.
I use a program named "Everything" to do searches across all of my
Calibre database. I use a second instance to check my unedited
database. These are tremendously useful.
BTW, never EVER make any changes to anything in a Calibre database
except through Calibre itself. I learned that one the hard way.
>
>I've just installed the portable version of calibre on a flash drive.
>I'm going to use this version to do a quick edit of a series I come
>across and want to try. If I like the books I'll then transfer to my
>main library. My problem at the moment is that I'm spending too much
>time learning about calibre features and not actually editing any
>books.
I don't spend enough time doing this. Calibre is so powerful it will
probably do a lot of things I would like if I only knew what they were
and how to use it.
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