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Old 11-20-2021, 11:59 PM   #2335
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Originally Posted by Phil_C View Post
I'm confused.

IIRC, going back a few months and as far back as I can remember, when I opened a book on the Clara HD the displayed % in the My Books list became "1%" (with the book remaining on the first/cover page). "1%" was also transferred to calibre upon connecting in Win 10.

More recently, that behavior changed to a display of "Reading" on the Kobo, and "0%" showing in calibre.

Now, the Kobo again displays "1%" in My Books, but wants to transfer "0%" to calibre upon connection.

The reason this concerns me is that I line up my future reading list by opening the books on the Kobo to the cover page, and using the My Books list with a filter of Reading and sorted by Recent. This used to give me the 1% display that I prefer. When transferred to calibre, the 1% books are color coded in my library. So if these opened books are 0%, they show as unread in calibre, fouling up my calibre system.

I don't know if the changing behavior is intentional, but I'd like to know if there is a way to have an opened book on the cover page always display "1%" on the Kobo and give that information to calibre.

Any information/help would be appreciated.
Some of that sounds like bugs in specific firmware versions or with particular formats. The 1% on the device sounds like a problem with books in MOBI format. I remember that there was an issue with the reading status updating on the device. I don't know what the status of this is.

I occasionally see the status on the device as just "Reading". I've never dug into why, but, it is likely to be when the percent read is zero and the book is marked as opened. That calibre is getting zero percent from the device, suggests this is correct.

Nothing has changed in the plugin on relation to this. And I haven't noticed any change on the device. But, I also don't open books and leave them on the cover page. If you could run calibre in debug mode and post the log from after connecting the device and the status fetch has run, I can check if there is anything thing obvious in that. I'll also need the title of some books in this state to make sure I have the right ones.
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