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Originally Posted by theducks
What about devices that do not offer 'how far read'?
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it is probably doable only for some devices, and a lot of work for little gain. e.g. My Sony, with prs plus, already displays how many pages read + total pages under each book thumbnail- so a calibre plug in would need to access & reformat that info. Without PRS+ I don't remember it being able to do that.
When I owned a Kindle3, it did not do "pages" but it did have the concept of % read. again that would have to be located within the Kindle device file structure, extracted & displayed. when you start a book on Kindle it creates a metadata file for that book which stores, amongst other things, where you've gotten to in the book. if you find & delete that file the book reverts to showing as "new"
for those of us who are not interested in the calibre feature, we'd want it OFF as it could slow down the device connection process, if calibre plug in would have to examine every book on the device.
a simpler proposition would be to check only for which books were unread and return/display a Y/N field.but most devices should already be able to show that status & sort on it.
maybe the OP should ditch his kindle, buy a sony & install PRS+