How do you mark books read?

Sydney's Mom · 12-05-2009, 09:18 PM

I have all my books entered into Calibre, metadate fixed, covers. Now I would like to go through and mark the books I have already read. I don't want to remove them, as Calibre is my library of read and unread. Any suggestions?

omk3 · 12-05-2009, 09:24 PM

Tags and ratings are two that come to mind. A "read" tag is simple enough, and you can use tags to only view read, or unread books. Or you could rate only the books you have read and it will be obvious you read them from the existence of stars.

kjk · 12-05-2009, 09:31 PM

It would be kinda fun to have the iTunes type "white circle-unread, half-blue circle-in process of reading, blue circle-read" type icons in the library. But honestly, I only have books I've read in paper form in my eBook library, so they'd all be blue

I'm guessing a simple "read" tag would be easiest.

theducks · 12-05-2009, 09:40 PM

Make your tag "0read0" (those are Zeros)
First, numbers sort before letters in a list.
Second, it avoids false substring finds like: bread, unread, thread...
The ending 0 just makes it symmetrical :P

Sydney's Mom · 12-05-2009, 09:47 PM

Thanks!
K to all of you!

yekim54 · 12-06-2009, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by omk3

Or you could rate only the books you have read and it will be obvious you read them from the existence of stars.

Yep, that's the method I use.

patchymama · 12-07-2009, 11:39 PM

yep, i just give all books i have read 1 star since its so easy to do.

Deb · 12-08-2009, 12:34 AM

I just tag my unread books when I get them - then I can go into my 'Unread' folder and look for something new. Then periodically I update my Calibre and my reader and remove the tag.

Lloyd Simcoe · 12-09-2009, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by patchymama

yep, i just give all books i have read 1 star since its so easy to do.

ditto

Sydney's Mom · 12-09-2009, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patchymama

yep, i just give all books i have read 1 star since its so easy to do.

Oh, but that isn't precise enough! I went through and gave stars to all - 3 was my average (cause I don't deliberately read stuff I hate). I had a lot of 2s, a couple 4s. Now I'm thinking 2 should have been average. Then I could leave 5 open for the perfect book, that I haven't yet found (although Too Big to Fail might get 5 stars).

ficbot · 12-09-2009, 09:09 PM

I was using stars until somebody showed me how to use the browser so that you could exclude from the list books with a certain tag. That way, if you want to only look at unread books, they'll all be there and your read books will be hidden.

I like the asterisk suggestion. I did find that when I had a 'read' tags then items I had tagged as being from Mobile Read would show up too. So the asterisk will solve my problem

12-05-2009, 09:18 PM	#1
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,179 Karma: 3646739 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chicago Device: Kindle 4 (7th Kindle), Fire HD and Samsung Tab 10.1.2	How do you mark books read? I have all my books entered into Calibre, metadate fixed, covers. Now I would like to go through and mark the books I have already read. I don't want to remove them, as Calibre is my library of read and unread. Any suggestions? __________________ Let's both use dropbox for our ebooks. Sign-up with this link, and we both get space in the cloud! And Dropbox just doubled what we both get! Thanks, Debra https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NT...rrals_twitter9 I love my Kindles, thanks to MobileRead, I Heart Cabbages and Calibre!

12-05-2009, 09:47 PM	#5
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,179 Karma: 3646739 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chicago Device: Kindle 4 (7th Kindle), Fire HD and Samsung Tab 10.1.2	Thanks! K to all of you! __________________ Let's both use dropbox for our ebooks. Sign-up with this link, and we both get space in the cloud! And Dropbox just doubled what we both get! Thanks, Debra https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NT...rrals_twitter9 I love my Kindles, thanks to MobileRead, I Heart Cabbages and Calibre!

12-09-2009, 09:09 PM	#11
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,350 Karma: 4054142 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kobo Glo, iPad/iPhone	I was using stars until somebody showed me how to use the browser so that you could exclude from the list books with a certain tag. That way, if you want to only look at unread books, they'll all be there and your read books will be hidden. I like the asterisk suggestion. I did find that when I had a 'read' tags then items I had tagged as being from Mobile Read would show up too. So the asterisk will solve my problem __________________ I blog at Teleread and review at Goodreads. Come read with me!

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12-05-2009, 09:24 PM	#2
omk3 Wizard Posts: 1,455 Karma: 37243 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Europe Device: pocketbook 360, kindle 4	Tags and ratings are two that come to mind. A "read" tag is simple enough, and you can use tags to only view read, or unread books. Or you could rate only the books you have read and it will be obvious you read them from the existence of stars.

12-05-2009, 09:31 PM	#3
kjk . Posts: 3,408 Karma: 5647231 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: never enough	It would be kinda fun to have the iTunes type "white circle-unread, half-blue circle-in process of reading, blue circle-read" type icons in the library. But honestly, I only have books I've read in paper form in my eBook library, so they'd all be blue I'm guessing a simple "read" tag would be easiest.

12-05-2009, 09:40 PM	#4
theducks Staff to 4 Cats Posts: 10,710 Karma: 2485850 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The (original) Silicon Valley, USA Device: Galaxy Tab 2,Black Astak PEz, K4NT(now Wifes)	Make your tag "0read0" (those are Zeros) First, numbers sort before letters in a list. Second, it avoids false substring finds like: bread, unread, thread... The ending 0 just makes it symmetrical :P

12-07-2009, 11:39 PM	#7
patchymama Member Posts: 20 Karma: 30 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Kindle	yep, i just give all books i have read 1 star since its so easy to do.

12-08-2009, 12:34 AM	#8
Deb Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 260 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Sacramento Device: Sony PRS-700	I just tag my unread books when I get them - then I can go into my 'Unread' folder and look for something new. Then periodically I update my Calibre and my reader and remove the tag.


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