Ah ha, so I followed through with your walkthrough PeterT, and the add-in Column you created was quite handy. That's helped sort through the list on my Calibre library. Unfortunately 95% manually, since I've been taking books off the device as I've been finishing them, and had a few factory resets to boot. Between that in Calibre as a 'permanent' log, and the new features introduced on the Kobo with FW3.0.0, this is really helping my OCD of library-management, hah!
Anyways, this solved most of what I had been hoping for, and as the last read dates in particular flow through to Calibre over time, it'll be great to see just how quick I'm tearing through novels. Too bad I hadn't learned how to do this sooner!
More questions this has spawned:
1) With the new columns of Percent Read and Read Status, is there any quick way to tell Calibre to hide anything with the 100% / Finished status? Sorting works, of course, but if I could just hide the ones I've gotten through, then I could have a cleaner Author/Series sort. Definitely not a big deal, but I'm just curious.
2) Is KoboUtilities supposed to do the Store/Restore thing automatically for all of the Custom Columns? I'd love if I could plug my Kobo in and it just flowed that info through to Calibre, that'd be great.
3) Is there any way to do this for books downloaded from the Kobo Storefront? I downloaded a bunch of free classics that I'd love to have marked 'Finished' in this manner to maintain this database of completed books I'd like to build up over time, but, while Calibre recognizes them on the device, it does not keep anything for them in Calibre, as they are 'virtual' books. Would the only real way of doing it to simply replace those Kobo-obtained free books with copies from, say, Project Gutenberg instead?
Thanks! Its amazing what you all have done with these add-ins and Calibre itself to make the Kobo even better.
|