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On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 04:28:44 -0400, Hawkeye <Hawkeye@MASH.com> wrote:
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>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 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 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 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.
Astraweb has been down all evening (UK time)
I don't think I could cope with 10,000 books in calibre, 280,000 no
definitely not. I can understand why though. I have to hide most of
my external hard disks containing movies and Tv shows. I'm
embarrassed by how many I've bought over the years, but still can't
stop downloading. At least I actually read the books (100+ pages a
day) but watch maybe 2 or 3 movies a week but download over a dozen. A
friend of mine had a bad road accident a couple of years ago, he's
still off work, and only able to walk with crutches, so he's watching
them for me.
Before I add books to existing folders I make sure they are in the IRC
standard naming. I use Bulk Rename Utility which can rename a few
hundred of Treesaver's posts back to FirstName LastName instantly.
It's difficult to learn but there's a good forum which helps explain
what expressions to use. By renaming the file the crc doesn't change
and having a utility called teracopy installed, means I can check if a
book with the same filename is an exact duplicate. Renaming files by
loading into calibre changes the crc.
New authors are my problem as well. I spend too much time collecting
new authors, using Amazons "Customers Who Bought This Item also
Bought" links or Fantastic Fictions similiar authors, now I've joined
Goodreads it's only got worse. It's loading the books into calibre
and the editing that's the boring part.
There's no easy way to weed out duplicates except by looking at each
individual file. I'm doing Stuart Woods at the moment, 68 books,
nearly every book has at least 3 versions, some later books 6 or 7. I
checked every version before choosing the best ones and loading into
calibre. I've tried bulk downloading the metadata for all the books
but this doesn't always get the right book or the version with all the
links, so it's been one book at a time. The Fantastic Fiction plugin
isn't working which doesn't help, so there's still a fair bit of work
to do.
I've been looking at the catalogue creator and decided I'm going to
use this for each individual author. The problem now, is the comments
section for the books which varies in length, formatting, and font
size, so the catalogue looks a mess. So that's going to need thinking
about as well.
I've also installed the Quality Check and Modify epub plug-ins to try
out (on copies after a save to disk)
The book versions being posted now by Psychopath and others, are
either retail or good quality scans. Once I've completed an author I
probably won't need to update any books I've already done. I've got
enough books to read for at least a month, so I'm going to take the
time to learn about calibre. Instead of planning to post about 20
authors at once I'm going to concentrate on one author, which might as
well be Stuart Woods since I haven't read any of his books, and get
everything right (as much as possible) and go from there.
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