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Old 11-12-2022, 04:26 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by neonfire View Post
You have a boolean column as default, and if the device can update the field, then great, if not it's a manual switch.
Boolean columns can be either tri-state (yes/no/undefined) or bistate (yes/no). So what do you set as default? Several glitches have happened in the past when a bit of code didn't account for this. Better to let the user do this.

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I remember using the late davidfor's Kobo Utilities ability to fetch the reading statistics from a Kobo ereader in 2013 and considering in the decade since how few implementations of that functionality for other ereaders have been created, it suggests that the task is a quite bit harder than you seem to think.
Furthermore, Kobo Utilities uses an integer.
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