The problem is that
Kobo doesn't feel good with the idea of something that has been read by someone. If I finish a book, this doesn't mean that I don't want to flip it through again, in the future. And if I do, still that books is a book I have finished.
In fact,
Kobo flags a book as "Read" when, the last page being shown, I turn page over again. This way, thoug, when I open a "Read" book again, only to examine specific excerpts or chapters, the book becomes "Reading" again (0%, 99%, or intermediate values: it depends on the page we lastly close the book at). Of course, I can manually flag it as "Read" through the extra options available for every book, but this is unquick and always un-permanenty, and needed every time for every book I want to flag: unfortunately, Kobo deosn't alloy multiple selection.
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I make use of
Kobo to store and read a huge number of (quite short) articles that I grab from the web and convert to
.epubs (Firefox +
GrabMyBooks, an invaluable duo), and in the end I need to flag them as "Read" in a more stable way than
Kobo does, being sure that they will be somewhat "Read" even if I open them again. And I want to be able to do this directly with the
Kobo, comfortably, wherever I find myself in that moment.
I find particularly comfortable with Collections: I add by default my unread articles to a specific Collection, called "
Articles"; then, after the reading, I move them to another one: "
Archive".
Calibre can manage the Collections (the
Kobo driver also calls it Shelves); so, I created the custom column
#collections and setted it as the Collections column through the driver options. I flag every new article I send from
Calibre to
Kobo with "
Articles" in
#collections, so that when it is added to
Kobo, it already belongs to "
Articles" collection.
The problem is that when I move a finished article from "
Articles" to "
Archive", and I do this with the
Kobo disconnected from
Calibre,
Calibre doesn't recognise such an operation, and as soon as I connect the device, it tends to take back all to the previous state.
That's why
this thread:
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«How to make Calibre to accept new Collections created with Kobo, and not to force Kobo to the previous status?»
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My solution:
- Create the #collections column (comma separated text) and associate it to Kobo Collections
- Ask Calibre to ignore "Archive" collection, so that the articles moved from "Articles" and so flagged as "Archive", still maintain this flag also after connecting the Kobo
- Calibre won't remove the finished articles from "Archive", now, but still it will apply them the old "Articles" flag, in addition to "Archive"; this is annoying, because that way all the finished articles would also be "Articles", again, when the role of "Archive" is just to hide the finished articles, and to have a lightweight shelf containing only what I haven't read yet
- So, I make use of: Get shelves from device. With this useful option, I select with Calibre the .epubs I moved to "Archive" with Kobo, and send their Collection status (the flag "Archive") to the column... #collection, so that Calibre will agree with me that a finished article is a finished article, and when I disconnect the Kobo, Calibre won't intervene wrongly.
When I turn
Kobo on, my homepage is "
Articles".
But I know apart there's also an archive, including the most remarkable articles I have read in the past.