Viktor Vilhelm Sonesten

The desktop application uses an imported local copy of the databases. These are all publicly available but the current latest backups will consume roughly ~1G (compressed). If we'd have these,...

Databases can be downloaded to `~/.local/share`. For a start, bookwyrm can expect these files to exist and we'll find some neat way for it to automatically download them later.

The database backups are MySQL dumps, but we do not want to host our own MySQL server, so instead we can convert the dump to sqlite-compatible statements via [mysql2sqlite](https://github.com/dumblob/mysql2sqlite). After...

`x-rar-compressed`-compressed databases can be downloaded from http://libgen.io/dbdumps/. Downloads (with wget at least) seem to cut out every once in a while. Automated download should probably have low timeout and many...

The easiest implementation of this approach would be to just feed every entry to bookwyrm so that it can do all the heavy lifting (takes no more than a few...

Local databases are now queried. Bottleneck is not the disk but when feeding the items to bookwyrm. Can likely be sped up by spawning some feeder threads, but current implementation...

List of things to do/consider before we can close this issue: - [x] Add `--prepare` option - [ ] Prompt user if database dumps should be downloaded (from fresh, updated,...

For the time being, this behavior should be wrapped into a `--prepare` option, that, as the option implies, prepares any and all plugins that require preparation.

Could this be related to the umlaut?

Can be replicated with the string `Throne of Jade (®)` which also contains a non-ASCII character.