[GUI Plugin] Reading List

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by Bigo2

If I click any column it will organize itself from the top alphabetically according to its purpose - Title, Author(s), Series, Tags, Publisher, Date etc. Some columns organize according to the date etc...
I would like to have a column called Default list, which when clicked it would reorganize all titles alphabetically, according to the Default list, so I would not have to go to Main Toolbar - Reading List - View Default list.
I don' know if it is possible and how exactly I will create such a Column.

You could also use the View Manager plugin which will let you create views with specific columns sorted and apply a specific search and column set to the view.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Bigo2

If I click any column it will organize itself from the top alphabetically according to its purpose - Title, Author(s), Series, Tags, Publisher, Date etc. Some columns organize according to the date etc...
I would like to have a column called Default list, which when clicked it would reorganize all titles alphabetically, according to the Default list, so I would not have to go to Main Toolbar - Reading List - View Default list.
I don' know if it is possible and how exactly I will create such a Column.

You can also do this using calibre's user categories. Create a user category called something like Favorite Titles. Create a custom column 'created from other columns' with the template {id}, which is calibre's book id. Then, if a book is a favorite, click in the id column then click/drag it to the category in the tag browser.

[Bigo2]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

A simpler way would be to assign a keyboard shortcut to Preferences->Shortcuts->Reading list->View books in the "Default" list, viz:

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Thanks But I would rather see it as a column...

[Bigo2]

Originally Posted by chaley

You can also do this using calibre's user categories. Create a user category called something like Favorite Titles. Create a custom column 'created from other columns' with the template {id}, which is calibre's book id. Then, if a book is a favorite, click in the id column then click/drag it to the category in the tag browser.

I will investigate this possibility - thanks

[Bigo2]

Originally Posted by chaley

You can also do this using calibre's user categories. Create a user category called something like Favorite Titles. Create a custom column 'created from other columns' with the template {id}, which is calibre's book id. Then, if a book is a favorite, click in the id column then click/drag it to the category in the tag browser.

Since I installed the Reading list plugin and added some books in it, those books are now marked with a pin icon on the leftmost part of the Main window. Couldn't there be a column designed which when selected would list all according those pins, so they would appear on top of the column?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by Bigo2

Since I installed the Reading list plugin and added some books in it, those books are now marked with a pin icon on the leftmost part of the Main window. Couldn't there be a column designed which when selected would list all according those pins, so they would appear on top of the column?

You can already search for marked books (the "pin"). Reading List can already fill in a column with "something" for marked books, on which you can sort.

Sorry, but I don't know what you are asking for beyond the above. What, *exactly*, do you want to have happen with the marked books?

[ownedbycats]

While trying to figure out the SmartEject issue, this happened:

1. I searched #readorder:true to bring up all the books on the reading list.
2. I used Ctrl+M to toggle mark on all of them.
3. I went to Reading List > Clear list.

This removed all my marks, which I was using just so I knew which books to re-add to the list.

Was that supposed to happen?

EDIT: I wasn't able to replicate it a second time (this time I set the #lastread date to next year so I could find the books again). Gremlins again.

[JimmXinu]

I think there may be some confusion about how how Reading List and marked books work exactly.

Calibre has a mechanism for temporarily 'marking' books. That's the pushpin icon next to the row number. It is not a column as such, and there's only one set of 'marks' available, but it is something you can search on. The most basic search is to search for marked:true. (Marks can also be named, which is a more advanced topic.)

When you 'View List' in Reading List, the PI marks each book in the list, then automatically sets the search to show only those marked books. It is not something that is saved as a column, it is only available until something else uses marks. Several other plugins also use marks and will reset all marks when used.

Also, if you clear a list while it's still being 'viewed', RL will clear those marks and now your search is empty. It detects if the list is being viewed by looking at the current search string for 'marked:reading_list_...'

[ownedbycats]

I actually used "View List," thought "wait those marks might disappear", so I unmarked them, used #readorder:true (series column) and then re-marked them manually. The second time I didn't re-mark them. Maybe they were still flagged as temporary marks or something.

[JimmXinu]

The code is reasonable straightforward: RL only sets marks when you view a list or when you change a list while it thinks you are already viewing a list.

If you can reliably reproduce it, I will look at it more. Until then, I have nothing to go on.

[Bigo2]

OK - thanks all for your recommendations.
One more try to explain myself:
When I connect my Kindle a column with marking ticks appears called "On Device" .
I need exactly the same - a column (permanent) called e.g. "On List" with marking ticks.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Bigo2

OK - thanks all for your recommendations.
One more try to explain myself:
When I connect my Kindle a column with marking ticks appears called "On Device" .
I need exactly the same - a column (permanent) called e.g. "On List" with marking ticks.

If you aren't already using the Column Update options for something else, you could probably just use that on a bool column.

But if you are, here's a sort of roundabout way to do it. Won't work on autopop lists.

1. Set up a series-type column called #readorder.
2. Use the Reading List settings under "Reading Order Options" to set that column.
3. Set up another column called #onreadinglist. Set it to "column built from another column." Put this in the template:

program: 
	test(field('#readorder'), 'Yes', '')

4. Go to Calibre Preferences > Look & Feel > Column Icons.
5. Use these rules:



With default install path there's a checkmark at C:\Program Files\Calibre2\app\resources\images\ok.png

If you do this right, you should get a psuedo-bool column that displays a checkmark and sorts by whether they're on the list, not what order they're on the list. You can then hide the #readorder column entirely.

I use it for View Manager sorting purposes myself.

If you use multiple lists and are any decent at composite columns, may also be possible to show different icons for different lists.

[ownedbycats]

JimmXinu - I did some searches, here's some posts I found about what Replace Device does:

Originally Posted by ElMiko

hi kiwidude-

Thanks for the latest update. I'm actually looking for a point of clarification on a couple of options from earlier versions. Specifically, I've never been totally clear on the two "Replace" options for syncing. How is the "Replace device with list, add new items only" option different from the "Add new Items only"? And how is the "Replace device with list, add/overwrite all" option different from "Replace..., add new items only"?

Originally Posted by capnm

"Replace device with list, ....." deletes non-list books from the device.
"Add new items only" doesn't update books on the list that are already on the device.
"Add/overwrite all" copies all books on the list to the device, copying over those already on the device.

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Thx capnm for helping out, I wonder if I should put some sort of explanatory text panel into the gui like I did with Find Duplicates.

Just one further clarification on the "Replace device with list..." options. The books that get removed from the device must also exist in calibre (just not on your reading list). So for instance if you have dictionaries or other books on your device that you have not put in calibre these will remain untouched, regardless of what you put on your reading list.

Conversation here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...76#post1845576

And here's the post about it being added (version 1.3.1): https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=239

[Bigo2]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

If you aren't already using the Column Update options for something else, you could probably just use that on a bool column.
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But if you are, here's a sort of roundabout way to do it. Won't work on autopop lists...
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If you use multiple lists and are any decent at composite columns, may also be possible to show different icons for different lists.

Hi ownedbycats, I have done exactly as you described, creating both columns etc. It kind of works but not as I expected. The column listing when I click it looks like this:
Read Order v
Default [4]
Default [3]
Default [2]
Default [1]
No checkmarks but the name of the listing "Default" which can be changed or more listing names added in "Customize plugin..."
The listings in other columns Title - Author(s)... are OK showing related details, but the order is wrong, the highest number (= last created) on top...

When I remove all listing from the Reading List, the Order column stops showing those Default [n] lines so there is nothing in the Read Order column as expected - but if I click the column title it still keeps reordering putting those deleted listing titles in columns on top above the letter A...
The checkmarks icon - I tested it, it is linked properly but it does not appear in the column - there is only that Default with a [number].

I could use this as it is but I don't like those sorting errors...

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by Bigo2

...
Read Order v
Default [4]
Default [3]
Default [2]
Default [1]
...

That little 'v' next to Read Order? That says 'sort descending' AKA, backwards. Click the column header again and it will switch sort direction. You probably clicked it more than once?

From your description, everything sounds like it is working as intended...