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DNSB · 11-12-2022, 02:23 AM

For myself, I don't use the calibre viewer other than to check ebooks after correcting errors and even that is not very useful most of the time since calibre's viewer is Chrome based and much more forgiving of errors than most renderers in dedicated ebook readers and apps. And that is the only place that the developers could guarantee access to the reading statistics.

I do have the reading statistics from my Kobo ereaders in custom column (Kobo Read Percentage, Kobo Last Read date and Kobo Reading Location) since those are values that can be automatically updated on each connect thanks to Kobo's open design.

Since the only device you list is a Kindle Basic and you are on firmware 5.15.1 which not jailbreakable, are you ready and able to supply the code that would be able to extract the reading statistics from the Kindle's normally inaccessible database to update calibre columns?

Trying to convince the developers that what you consider a "basic and obvious feature" should be implemented regardless of the necessity for a massive amount of device specific code is not going to be a trivial task. Especially since many devices simply do not make that information accessible.

If you are simply asking for manually updateable columns where you can keep track of your "just pirate books/comics" statistics, that's too much like manual labour to appeal to many calibre users.

11-12-2022, 02:23 AM	#2
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 46,419 Karma: 169098492 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	For myself, I don't use the calibre viewer other than to check ebooks after correcting errors and even that is not very useful most of the time since calibre's viewer is Chrome based and much more forgiving of errors than most renderers in dedicated ebook readers and apps. And that is the only place that the developers could guarantee access to the reading statistics. I do have the reading statistics from my Kobo ereaders in custom column (Kobo Read Percentage, Kobo Last Read date and Kobo Reading Location) since those are values that can be automatically updated on each connect thanks to Kobo's open design. Since the only device you list is a Kindle Basic and you are on firmware 5.15.1 which not jailbreakable, are you ready and able to supply the code that would be able to extract the reading statistics from the Kindle's normally inaccessible database to update calibre columns? Trying to convince the developers that what you consider a "basic and obvious feature" should be implemented regardless of the necessity for a massive amount of device specific code is not going to be a trivial task. Especially since many devices simply do not make that information accessible. If you are simply asking for manually updateable columns where you can keep track of your "just pirate books/comics" statistics, that's too much like manual labour to appeal to many calibre users.