Last read date

[johnwhelan]

Is such a thing recorded and possible to display in Calibre?

I tend to reread books, generally speaking I work my way through my bookcases from left to right and it takes me about three years to read everything. As I read them I enter them in Calibre if I haven't entered them already.

When I come across a author I like releasing e-books the first task is to check the shelf and see if I have a physical copy and enter them in Calibre.

These days I have some 450 e-books some of which are now three years old or in other words time to possibly read them once more.

For physical books I expect I would need to update something manually but Calibre might be capturing the date it was last sent to the device. Then perhaps I could do a search on 4 or 5 star books sorted in date last read order.

Thanks John

[kiwidude]

Calibre does not automatically have such a feature. After all, putting a book on a device or opening in the viewer is no guarantee you read it

However you can easily add a custom date column that you manually keep updated. That is what I do. Except I do it in as part of my goodreads updating with the Goodreads Sync plugin, so a keystroke will populate my date read column with today and send my rating to goodreads. In the case of re-reading a book it is a simple date edit exercise. You can then sort and filter on that column as you wish.

[johnwhelan]

Interesting, I added a lastread column as date, when I double click on it it sets the date to today's date.

Cheerio John