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Originally Posted by kiwidude
So what would I like to improve? Well the main thing I have been doing is adding books to my read shelf. This necessitates a subsequent visit to the Goodreads website to set the "date read" column, my # review stars, and also the flag as to whether I "own" a book or not....
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I think a while back in this thread I went through my own Goodreads/Calibre "workflow," explaining what I'd like to see with this plugin, and you've captured some of it here, which suggests you are using GR similarly to how I do!
I use GR at two points. First when I add a book to my Calibre library, I also want to add it to GR. The plugin works reasonably well for this. I add the book to Calibre, then use link. But then I usually like to add the book to more than one shelf, and it's a pain having to do this one by one. What I often end up doing is adding it to one shelf, then using the plugin to "view" the book in GR, then manually adding all the shelves in GR - that's faster than doing it one by one through the plugin.
So request #1:
1) Add books to multiple GR shelves at once
Then I use GR again when I finish a book. At this point I want to mark it read - but I also want to mark the date read, sometimes give it stars, sometimes add a review, occasionally add it to other shelves. For this the plugin just doesn't do what I'd like it to do; sure I could use it to mark the book read or change shelves, but there's no real point, since I have to go to GR anyway to do all the other things. What I'd love is to be able, on a book-by-book basis, *from Calibre*:
2) Sync my GR "date read" from my "date read" column in Calibre, and do the same with my Calibre stars column and possibly the actual text review
If I could do this I wouldn't have to manually go to GR and replicate what I'm doing in Calibre each time I finish a book.
For me syncing of entire shelves isn't that important, and I don't do GR->Calibre syncing at all, so those aspects of the plugin aren't ones I'm familiar with. What I would love is to be able to get more information, on a book-by-book (not shelf or tag) basis, from Calibre into GR.