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Originally Posted by dunhill
It is a bit long to do a step by step.
First you have to create custom columns. Once the creation of the customized columns is finished, we accept and Calibre will be restarted, so that these changes take effect, the columns will appear in the last positions, we must possess them, pressing the mouse over the column and move it to their places of choice .
Now we install the Goodreads sync plugin. Once the plugin is installed, Calibre restarts and the Goodreads sync icon will appear in the toolbar.
We click on the icon and touch customize complement.
in that field we put the email address with which we enter Goodreads a screen opens where we have to authorize the plugin with Goodreads, just by touching the button that says Authorize our Goodreads section opens in the browser.
And our Goodreads shelves are automatically added to the plugin.
I leave here below what they have to put on each shelf all by clicking the settings for the shelves of
To read
Actions to add to the shelf:
Actions to synchronize shelf:
e,
Reading (currently reading)
Actions to add to the shelf:
Actions to synchronize shelf:
Read (read)
Actions to add to the shelf:
Actions to synchronize shelf:
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I'm not who was asking, but between these screenshots and
this older write up I found, this is really helpful!
In goodreads just have the 3 default shelves and an "abandoned" one, and have genres in tags (along with stuff like, "on device" because I didn't realize I could make a y/n column for that and I've just stuck with it) in calibre, as well as mostly genre-specific kobo collections that I sync from calibre, plus one collection called "queue" for 20 or so to pick from next to help with decision paralysis because some of those collections are getting massive. But I also have a few hundred books in calibre/on my kobo and 80% are unread (I know, I'm nuts, and I definitely don't want them all in GR right now or max out the API limits!). So, I'm not doing genre shelving in GR, "queue" is probably more accurately "want to read" than "currently reading" so I can associate it with that, and I usually denote books as being finished when they have a rating and just straight up delete abandoned ones when I finally give up on them. I've been kind of confused and searching the thread, trying to figure out the easiest way to use my current workflow + kobo utilities plugin for progress, and making a separate column seems to be the best bet, and this will really help. Thanks again!