Thread: Kobo Firmware 4.6.9995
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Old 10-22-2017, 07:14 PM   #145
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Originally Posted by anacreon View Post
I wasn't protesting the first pop-ups. I was protesting that after unchecking some books I had to do it a second time, and I was afraid that I would have to do it every time I moved from the collections list to the books lists.

I have some books at 95% or 1% that I want to keep that way, even after one month. 1% of a 10000+ pages (my maximum is 15640) is 100+ pages, the last 5% of a 800 pages book is 40 pages.

I have many "Complete Works" in which I dip now and then for instance, especially poetry - I don't want to lose my pages.

But when I just took my reader, it didn't ask me again. I'll see how it goes after reading for a while which I didn't get to do after upgrading this morning.
I completely forgot about this new feature when I wrote up the changes from 4.6.9960. I saw it a couple of times during the beta testing, but not enough to truly work out the pattern for how it works. But...

It should display periodically. Once for the "barely started" and once for the "neary finished". It probably displays the books that have been in those states for the longest. Which would mean that if you dismiss it without changing any books, these books are the most likely to appear the next time the popup is shown.

For control, the following two lines have been added to the config file in the "ApplicationPreferences" settings section:

Code:
MarkAsFinishedLastShown=@Variant(\0\0\0\x10\0%\x81\x96\x2\xbb\xdc.\xff)
MarkAsUnreadLastShown=@Variant(\0\0\0\x10\0%\x81\x96\x2\xbe\x1e\x61\xff)
I'm pretty sure they are dates stored in some Qt internal format. If I delete these lines, the next time I go to the book list, the popups are displayed. It looks like they do the "almost finished" first.

I don't know how often this is supposed to show. If someone translates the above dates, then that is the last time I saw it on my Aura ONE. That is at least three weeks ago. Like anacreon, I think they were displayed a couple of times early one. That might be related to the action and if there are more books that fit the category. By that, I mean if you change the status of the books displayed, and there are more books that fit the selection criteria, then it might not set the timestamp above so that you are prompted with the next batch the next time. If that is happening, then only changing some of them would mean they either need to track what has been shown and ignored, or display the same ones again. I don't know if this is the case, or if there was simply a bug in setting the timestamp the first time.
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