10-31-2014, 07:46 PM | #676 |
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Sorry, the plugin doesn't support A simple problem with doing this is, which shelf do you store the position for? My books are all on at least two shelves, so which position should the plugin store?
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11-01-2014, 01:43 AM | #677 |
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Goodreads reading progress
For books that are in the currently reading shelf, Goodreads displays them on the home page. From there, you can update your progress as you read the book and add a comment if you want to.
As you read a book on the Kobo e-ink eReaders, the percent read is maintained on the device. And my Kobo Utilities plugin can fetch the percent read into the calibre library for the book. Can anyone see where this is going? Yes, I have added a function Goodreads Sync plugin to update the Goodreads progress from calibre. This will send your reading progress to Goodreads. And if you want, you can add a comment. The progress can be either the percent read or the pages read. To use this function:
You will see the latest status on the homepage. To see all the updates for a book, look at the books page and click on "view all x status updates" in the "My Review" section. I have been using this for a couple of weeks with no problems. If anything is going to be broken, it is the page count option. I have not used it as much as the other options. If anyone uses this and has any problems, please report them. Suggestions for improvements are also welcome. And that does include improvements to the instructions or text used for the menu and options. There are two things this doesn't do. When you first start reading a book, it does not move the book to the "currently-reading" shelf. And it doesn't move it to the "read" shelf when you finish the book. This has been done without any involvement from kiwidude. If people like it, I will talk to him about an official release. If nobody is interested, that's OK to. It serves my purposes, so it I'm happy with it. |
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11-01-2014, 03:41 AM | #678 |
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Genius, i was only thinking about something like this the other day
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11-01-2014, 10:52 AM | #679 | |
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Anyway, I like the idea of updating the position from your e-reader better: I was planning to put that into my Sony utilities, but now I don't need to |
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11-01-2014, 11:46 AM | #680 |
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I have a possible option suggestion.
Hopefully I am not making a fool of myself b suggesting this but after crashing with trying out the window 10 preview (x3) and having to restore everything back to what is was the only thing I did find time consuming and lacking was the ability to restore the goodreads sync to how I had it. I have more the more then 30 shelves and I need to edit each shelf and sync options which takes a considerable amount of time. It would be great to have some sort of Export/Import option that would make this so much faster. Thanks |
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11-01-2014, 05:06 PM | #681 |
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You don't need an export option: the settings are stored in JSON under the calibre config directory: plugins/Goodreads Sync.json
So if you have backups... |
11-01-2014, 07:30 PM | #682 | |
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For the position within the shelf, unless they just want the position in one particular shelf, it's a bit more difficult. Knowing why it is wanted could affect how to do it. |
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11-01-2014, 07:34 PM | #683 | |
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11-07-2014, 08:43 AM | #685 |
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I am obviously doing something wrong with this plugin. I have a goodreads icon on my top. If I select a book and click the icon everything works as expected. When I connect my Nexus 7 (with Calibre Companion or USB), the icon disappears. If I right click on a book, the goodreads context menu item is inaccessible.
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11-07-2014, 09:06 AM | #686 | |
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11-07-2014, 03:14 PM | #687 |
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Thank you. Worked perfectly. See next post for reason for this.
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11-07-2014, 03:20 PM | #688 | |
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calibre, version 2.3.0 ERROR: Goodreads Failure: The request contacting Goodreads has failed. Please try again. URL: http://www.goodreads.com/user_status.xml Response Code: 422 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <errors> <error>Percent must be greater than or equal to 0</error> </errors> "-1" is in my progress col. I am actually at 78%. What am I missing? Last edited by todivefor; 11-07-2014 at 03:27 PM. |
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11-07-2014, 08:27 PM | #689 | |
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But, I need to add some value testing to make sure the plugin skips anything that is no zero or greater. |
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11-08-2014, 09:51 AM | #690 |
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My mistake. I thought it was extracted from the ebook.
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