# Devonthink vs Bookends

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**Category:** DEVONthink\
**Created:** [January 2, 2022, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/devonthink-vs-bookends/68739 "2022-01-02T17:14:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 16, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/devonthink-vs-bookends/68739/10 "2022-01-16T17:06:07Z")

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DEVONthink and Bookends do work brilliantly together and really are very different tools. One other reason why Bookends might be a good addition to DEVONthink is that, if your academic PDF library is very large (as mine is, from doing many long literature reviews over the years), there can be performance issues having the whole thing in DEVONthink:

> [@Performance expectations with large indexed library](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/performance-expectations-with-large-indexed-library/68096):
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> I recently indexed my Bookends PDF library in DEVONthink and I’m having some performance issues (beachballing). I’d like to know whether this is just to be expected or whether I can improve the situation in some way. It’s a large PDF library. Nearly 6,000 items and 18GB. I initially had it in the same database as all my other research materials but now moved it to its own database (didn’t seem to make much difference). Here’s some examples of where I’m experiencing problems: Manually move on…

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