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Originally Posted by PeterT

The columns are used to store info. retrieved from the Kobo (and to let you restore it to the Kobo as well).

I created 4 custom columns for use by david's utility plugin:

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Lookup Name: koboreadpct
Column Heading: Kobo Read Percentage
Column Type: Integers

Lookup Name: koborating
Column Heading: Kobo Rating
Column Type: Integers

Lookup Name: kobolastread
Column Heading: Kobo Last Read TimeStamp
Column Type: Date

Lookup Name: koboreadloc
Column Heading: Kobo Reading Location
Column Type: Text, column shown in tag browser

I created my "custom" column

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Lookup Name: readstatus
Column Heading: Reading Status
Column Type: Column, built from other columns
Template: {#koboreadpct:'cmp($, 100, cmp($, 0, '', '', 'Reading'), 'Finished', '')'}
Sort/Search column by Text

I then restarted calibre (required after column changes) and configured the driver

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Current Reading Location Column: #koboreadloc
Percent Read Column: #koboreadpct
Rating Column: #koborating
Last Read Column: #kobolastread

Strictly speaking I'm ONLY using the value of #koboreadpct so don't really need any of the other columns.

Finally I added the value #readstatus to the shelf value in the Kobo device driver (or the Kobo Extended device driver).

One final restart of calibre for safety and all is done.

Is this still the way to keep track of read location and read status? Has anything relevant changed?

"Finally I added the value #readstatus to the shelf value in the Kobo device driver (or the Kobo Extended device driver)."
For the extended driver, does this mean add #readstatus to the collections columns list? Is it a comma separated list?