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Old 09-03-2013, 07:46 AM   #131
chaley
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Originally Posted by Lanix View Post
Isn't there anyway to mark books as read?
No.

Reason: we could add a "read" checkbox, but within seconds of releasing it we would (rightly) get asked to sync that box back to calibre. And that is seriously hard. Calibre's device driver subsystem has no facility for writing back to calibre's main database, and there is no support for column mapping or simultaneous change management.

I have looked at how one might code something like this in both calibre and CC, without arriving at something with the necessary reliability, discoverability, and ease of use. On the other hand, last week I had some ideas that might break my mental logjam, so I might revisit it again, after I explore some ideas that might speed up the initial metadata handshake by 10 to 50 times.
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