[Kobo] Kobo Utilities strange numbers in store position

[palaran]

Hi there

Apologies if this has been posted before. I did search and could not fnd anything.

When I connect my Kobo Libra Colour, and the prompt pops up for storing the current reading positions, the numbers listed for the books alternate between silly large ones and the actual %, as shown in the two screen snips below.





My worry is, if I needed to do some restores and Calibre/Kobo Utilities was holding those higher numbers at the time, it will not set my reading % on the Kobo back to where I actually was.

Very new to the Kobo so wondering if I am missing some obvious setting?

[palaran]

I should add these are alternate connections, and I ma fully ejecting the Kobo from the computer before disconnecting, and have also tried with soft resets of the kobo by holding down the power button with same effect.

[DNSB]

Could you post your custom columns and the templates used to create them. I would suspect that is where your issues are coming from. At a wild eyed guess, the column you have listed as current % is actually holding the reading time in seconds.

[palaran]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Could you post your custom columns and the templates used to create them. I would suspect that is where your issues are coming from. At a wild eyed guess, the column you have listed as current % is actually holding the reading time in seconds.

Thank you so much - you hit the nail soundly on the head. I had the same column for both reading% and time spent reading;



When I fixed that the problem went away.

[DNSB]

For what it may be worth, here's my Kobo reading time columns setup. I've added two custom columns that display the reading time and reading time remaining in hours/minutes instead of seconds.

The templates for the two columns are:

program:

total = $#kobo_time_spent_reading;
hours = floor(total/3600);
minutes = round((total-hours*3600)/60);

def format(v, str):
    if v == 0 then return '' fi;
    return v & ' ' & str & ' '
fed;
format(hours, 'hr') & format(minutes, 'min')

program:

total = $#kobo_rest_of_book_estimate;
hours = floor(total/3600);
minutes = round((total-hours*3600)/60);

def format(v, str):
    if v == 0 then return '' fi;
    return v & ' ' & str & ' '
fed;
format(hours, 'hr') & format(minutes, 'min')

[palaran]

Oh I like those. Thanks for that.

[palaran]

Went to edit my post but it isn't allowed after 5 mins.

have now added. I do get a few starnge ones such as books that I have finished that are showing 1 or 2 min read time, but no remaining time. This does match the underlying data coming from the Kobo though so I assume is likely something that I have re-opened after finishing or similar.

Similarly have a cook book that I have jumped around quite a bit as I look at recipes which has 1 min read and 2 mins remaining, but again matches the underlying data.