Marking books as read in Calibre

paddlesnz1 · 10-18-2012, 05:55 PM

Is it possible to mark your books as read in your Calibre library.
I was thinking along the lines of being able to click on a button to show the book information row as a different color. MS Excel has the ability to choose and click on a color for the whole row. Can Calibre do this? Than you.

Hamlet53 · 10-18-2012, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by paddlesnz1

Is it possible to mark your books as read in your Calibre library.
I was thinking along the lines of being able to click on a button to show the book information row as a different color. MS Excel has the ability to choose and click on a color for the whole row. Can Calibre do this? Than you.

I just add a yes/no column and mark read books that way.

Synamon · 10-18-2012, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by paddlesnz1

Is it possible to mark your books as read in your Calibre library.
I was thinking along the lines of being able to click on a button to show the book information row as a different color. MS Excel has the ability to choose and click on a color for the whole row. Can Calibre do this? Than you.

Once you add a yes/no column like Hamlet53 suggests, then you can specify colouring for a column, like the book title (not the whole row unfortunately), based on whether or not the book has been read. The calibre blog has examples and walks you through how to create custom columns and column colouring.

pidgeon92 · 10-18-2012, 06:23 PM

I just use the rating system. If a book has no stars, it hasn't been read.

afv011 · 10-18-2012, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by pidgeon92

I just use the rating system. If a book has no stars, it hasn't been read.

Same here.

Sydney's Mom · 10-18-2012, 07:01 PM

I do it 2 ways. Only add a rating once I have read it, and add 0read0 to the tag. I use 0 rather than o, because it is hard to confuse with something else.

david_e · 10-18-2012, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Hamlet53

I just add a yes/no column and mark read books that way.

Me, too.

elemenoP · 10-18-2012, 08:11 PM

I add a tag in the tag column called "read." Then when I want to only show the books that I haven't read (which I often want to do because I only keep unread books on my reader), I can use this filter in the search box:

not(tags:"=read")

eP

DrNefario · 10-19-2012, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by pidgeon92

I just use the rating system. If a book has no stars, it hasn't been read.

I've been doing that, too, but when I added a new Baen book the other day, it seemed to give itself 4 stars immediately.

HarryT · 10-19-2012, 03:11 AM

Please use the forums properly. Calibre questions belong in the Calibre forum. Thread moved.

Gunnerp245 · 10-19-2012, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by DrNefario

I've been doing that, too, but when I added a new Baen book the other day, it seemed to give itself 4 stars immediately.

The metadata can be configured to 'not' download ratings. Click on the 'gear' icon.

soulfuldog · 10-19-2012, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Gunnerp245

The metadata can be configured to 'not' download ratings. Click on the 'gear' icon.

Cheers for that, always bugged me how I had to delete the ratings every time I downloaded metadata, now I don't need to

pchrist7 · 10-20-2012, 02:21 AM

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Originally Posted by paddlesnz1

Is it possible to mark your books as read in your Calibre library.
I was thinking along the lines of being able to click on a button to show the book information row as a different color. MS Excel has the ability to choose and click on a color for the whole row. Can Calibre do this? Than you.

Hi paddlesnz1
This is not quite what you ask for, but it might help after all.
I guess you have a K3 (Kindle keyboard) ?
So do I. The K3 keeps track of reading progress, and this can be used to update custom column in Calibre.
Things have changed though since the following Instructions were written.
If you have newest Firmware 3.4 on your K3 AND you use the new combined KF8 format for books it wont work.
Anyways - you could check this link out
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=137

Oh, and welcome to "our world"

Cheers,
Per

paddlesnz1 · 10-21-2012, 09:37 PM

Thanks to all.

I added an extra column titled Read Books.

I then went to Preferences, Change Calibre Behavior, Column Coloring.
I then added rules for each column telling it to change to a color eg:red when I put in the word Read in the new column (ie: Read Books column).

It works well.

KlausRegenbrecht · 10-22-2012, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by pidgeon92

I just use the rating system. If a book has no stars, it hasn't been read.

Yes, just as I do! And I ad an comment at metadata!

Klaus

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paddlesnz1 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: Kindle keyboard	Marking books as read in Calibre Is it possible to mark your books as read in your Calibre library. I was thinking along the lines of being able to click on a button to show the book information row as a different color. MS Excel has the ability to choose and click on a color for the whole row. Can Calibre do this? Than you.

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paddlesnz1 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: Kindle keyboard	Thanks to all. I added an extra column titled Read Books. I then went to Preferences, Change Calibre Behavior, Column Coloring. I then added rules for each column telling it to change to a color eg:red when I put in the word Read in the new column (ie: Read Books column). It works well.