Testers needed for Reading Tracker plugin

[varia]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Are the books being tracked kept in a json file?

Yes. That is the rebuild change for version 2.

[CAIArchive]

Originally Posted by varia

Seeing, yes, but without a start date, books couldn't be assigned to a specific month and the graph would be empty. Unless you mean there is another way to populate monthly read without a start date ?

In the original version the tracked and finished books aren't the same. Click the KPI cards to see the search string in Calibre. The status breakdown shows Finished, Reading, TBR, Paused, and DNF, if those statuses are assigned to any of your books. Unless all tracked books were labeled finished, then yes, that is the only detail you would see in the status breakdown pie chart.

For the date column(s) - I will work if you have just a "finished date" using at least MM and YYYY in the date. It can then be split into MM (this is for the month read of course) and YYYY (for the year read). DD isnt necessarily needed IMO, except if someone wants to sort data in the tracker tab by date read ("finished date") in which having the day part would be helpful.

[varia]

Originally Posted by CAIArchive

For the date column(s) - I will work if you have just a "finished date" using at least MM and YYYY in the date. It can then be split into MM (this is for the month read of course) and YYYY (for the year read). DD isnt necessarily needed IMO, except if someone wants to sort data in the tracker tab by date read ("finished date") in which having the day part would be helpful.

Yes, I think it would populate the monthly reads with only month/year. Having the full dates also feed a statistic that tells the reader how long it took them to read a particular book. Or which books took the longest vs fastest to complete. It's not a current statistic on the dashboard right now but was one of the possible ideas to add. (I understand not everyone tracks this detailed. It is just an option).

[DNSB]

For myself, my current homebrew is using the finished date from the Kobo last read column and the finished column to display the number of books read in a month. As for how long it took to read a book? I get that from one of Kobo statistics columns fed through another column that reformats the seconds returned by my Kobo into hours, minutes, seconds. The display is as ugly as homemade sin which is why I'm hoping that the final version of your plugin will be able to do a much prettier display.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by varia

Yes. That is the rebuild change for version 2.

Then what you can do if using the reading date as the date started if there is no date started.

[varia]

Have had an opportunity to squeeze come more changes to the tracker. Added functional tweaks as well as a Challenges tab. You can select specific books from your library to add to a challenge. Some new features: reading streak, import, export, drag and drop challenges, click book to go to the book detail in Calibre, local Ollama AI support if you have it installed (it is not required and can be hidden from view).

At this point what I need to know is if users would be fine with a stand-alone plugin that does not conveniently write to your custom columns. Reason being, it cannot support all possible custom columns and parse the data needed for the dashboard statistics. Where would still be interaction with the library, eg clicking a book in the tracker would take you to the book in the library.

VariaM

[varia]

Version 2 up for testing.
I strongly recommend installing on a test Caliber (portable works well) or back up. Keep in mind I am not even amateur rank.

New:
Challenges tab, interactive with your library. Reading streak for for the daily readers. For the anti-AI folks, Ollama will not run unless you install it. You can hide that panel. For those who want to try it, phi3 model works well enough. If you need help on it, ask.

Tracker tab with reading journal, improved review writing, interactive with library. Right click to see your book in the library.

Colors: Tweaked this to remove hard code colors, so now it matches custom palettes.

This was all in development when the last version was released, so certain features were not yet implemented.

Columns: Tried half a dozen different ways to remove reliance on columns and it is a bear. You lose interaction with the library. In that sense it would be like using Openreads tracker app but as a Calibre plugin. A hybrid with columns for those who want it and no columns for those who don't, is mayhem. Anyone with more coding brains than Chatgpt, feel free to suggest ways to tackle that beast. Otherwise, highly recommended:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=372614

Translation-friendly coding: Very important, still in the works.

Still have some more tweaks to do. More stats if possible.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by varia

Version 2 up for testing.
I strongly recommend installing on a test Caliber (portable works well) or back up. Keep in mind I am not even amateur rank.

New:
Challenges tab, interactive with your library. Reading streak for for the daily readers. For the anti-AI folks, Ollama will not run unless you install it. You can hide that panel. For those who want to try it, phi3 model works well enough. If you need help on it, ask.

Tracker tab with reading journal, improved review writing, interactive with library. Right click to see your book in the library.

Colors: Tweaked this to remove hard code colors, so now it matches custom palettes.

This was all in development when the last version was released, so certain features were not yet implemented.

Columns: Tried half a dozen different ways to remove reliance on columns and it is a bear. You lose interaction with the library. In that sense it would be like using Openreads tracker app but as a Calibre plugin. A hybrid with columns for those who want it and no columns for those who don't, is mayhem. Anyone with more coding brains than Chatgpt, feel free to suggest ways to tackle that beast. Otherwise, highly recommended:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=372614

Translation-friendly coding: Very important, still in the works.

Still have some more tweaks to do. More stats if possible.

Can you please remove the AI? It is a waste of screen and disk space. AI is getting into thing is doesn’t belong and this plugin is one of them. You would have a lot more happy users if AI was gone forever.

[varia]

It doesn't have AI in any way shape or form, but I hear you.
Here's the plugin with the AI panel and show/hide button removed.