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Originally Posted by kapsi
I mean show how much was read on the device.
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I agree that it would be very useful to show reading progress in device view (when connected to a device). Even a read/not read (never opened) indicator would be useful.
On the Kindle 3 and Kindle Fire, the modified date of the .mbp file indicates when last read and no .mbp file means never read. I don't know if these get updated if you sync reading location across devices, but either way this is still a valid indicator. So, a last read column for a Kindle would be easy to do, without reading the contents of the mbp, and would include never read. The last read location is inside the .mbp file, which has a binary format. See
mbp file format description from
mobipocket notes file extractor. This would be more work to get, but last read location would add value - either in addition to or in place of last read time.
Is the .mbp file handled the same way on the Kindle Touch?
I take the point raised by several posts that this is intrinsically device specific, but I don't see this as fatal in device view - which has to be at least in part device specific. Perhaps this implies a plugin approach?