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davidfor · 05-04-2014, 01:27 AM

My Kobo Utilities can set the reading status of books on the Kobo devices. There are two ways.

The "Update metadata in device library" allows you to change the metadata for the books that are selected in the library list. This includes options to set the reading status. So, select all the books with a "Y" and use this to mark them as read.

The store/restore function will store the current reading status of the books on the device in the calibre library. This can be restored to the device later. The status set when restoring is based on the percent read. If this is 100, then the book is marked as read. If you read a book elsewhere, you can set the percent read to 100 and use the restore to set the status on the device.

I use the latter method. I also use a column icon to set the display based on the percent read. 100% gets a tick and anything between 1 and 100 gets an opened book. Unread has nothing displayed.

05-04-2014, 01:27 AM	#2
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	My Kobo Utilities can set the reading status of books on the Kobo devices. There are two ways. The "Update metadata in device library" allows you to change the metadata for the books that are selected in the library list. This includes options to set the reading status. So, select all the books with a "Y" and use this to mark them as read. The store/restore function will store the current reading status of the books on the device in the calibre library. This can be restored to the device later. The status set when restoring is based on the percent read. If this is 100, then the book is marked as read. If you read a book elsewhere, you can set the percent read to 100 and use the restore to set the status on the device. I use the latter method. I also use a column icon to set the display based on the percent read. 100% gets a tick and anything between 1 and 100 gets an opened book. Unread has nothing displayed.