[GUI Plugin] Reading Goal

[ownedbycats]

Is it possible to fix this?

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Is it possible to fix this?

Sure. It's fixed now.

[Wiggo]

I have two questions please

Would it be possible to mark the re-read books in all single years it was read?
Would it be possible to show all read dates (book records) of a book in all the overviews?

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Would it be possible to mark the re-read books in all single years it was read?

Do you mean to mark the books in calibre? That's not possible for the simple reason that calibre can hold only the last date/percentage of a book.
If you are asking about the 'reareading' color, those books will have an orange color for ever year it was reread. The first time it was read is not a reread, so it will be green.

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Would it be possible to show all read dates (book records) of a book in all the overviews?

Do you the 'All' year option? I'll check it. That may be difficult. The first thing that comes to mind it that reread books only appear once (the last entry).

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

If you are asking about the 'reareading' color, those books will have an orange color for ever year it was reread. The first time it was read is not a reread, so it will be green.

Yes, I meant the rereading colour. I think instead of first time green the orange without the (1x) would be easier to spot rereads.

But I think it would be better to change the system a bit. Instead of calculating rereads, calculating reads. Reread books always orange and first read (1x), second read (2x) and so on.

I am always a bit irritated when the first reread is followed by (1x) and not (2x). Probably because you normally count reads and not rereads.

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

Do you the 'All' year option? I'll check it. That may be difficult. The first thing that comes to mind it that reread books only appear once (the last entry).

Yes, ‚All’ year option and all records below each other after clicking the button.

[ownedbycats]

I suggested a few pages back the option to customize colours. (Not for the number of re-reads though.) Would that help?

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

Yes, I meant the rereading colour. I think instead of first time green the orange without the (1x) would be easier to spot rereads.

But I think it would be better to change the system a bit. Instead of calculating rereads, calculating reads. Reread books always orange and first read (1x), second read (2x) and so on.

I am always a bit irritated when the first reread is followed by (1x) and not (2x). Probably because you normally count reads and not rereads.

To be honest, I prefer a reread count. Also, there is a technical reason: the plugin parses all the years sequentially to set the reread count; so, when it encounter the book for the first time, it can't know if it will appear again in another year.

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

To be honest, I prefer a reread count. Also, there is a technical reason: the plugin parses all the years sequentially to set the reread count; so, when it encounter the book for the first time, it can't know if it will appear again in another year.

I agree, I wouldn't want all the books with (1x), that would be the way to avoid what you mention.

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

To be honest, I prefer a reread count. Also, there is a technical reason: the plugin parses all the years sequentially to set the reread count; so, when it encounter the book for the first time, it can't know if it will appear again in another year.

I see. So it’s technically not possible that when the plugin finds a book for the second time it jumps back to the first hit?
It is a bit awkward to find the first read, because you have to leave the plug-in.

What’s about my second idea with all records in ‘All’ years view?

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

I agree, I wouldn't want all the books with (1x), that would be the way to avoid what you mention.

I did not ask for that. Only reread books should have a read count

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by Wiggo

I see. So it’s technically not possible that when the plugin finds a book for the second time it jumps back to the first hit?
It is a bit awkward to find the first read, because you have to leave the plug-in.

It's not impossible. It's just time consuming. It makes the plugin slower to open the 'Edit reading goal' dialog. And, like I said, I prefer to count the rereads.

Originally Posted by Wiggo

What’s about my second idea with all records in ‘All’ years view?

I'll check that. It may be possible.

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

It's not impossible. It's just time consuming. It makes the plugin slower to open the 'Edit reading goal' dialog. And, like I said, I prefer to count the rereads.

I understood that you prefer reread counts.
I meant maybe at least mark the first read book in orange too, if...

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

I'll check that. It may be possible.

…that’s not possible. This would be the better solution anyway

[ownedbycats]

Perhaps there could be an option to add a '1' to the display of the reread counter (leaving the actual data intact). So if there's one reread, it displays as x2.

I would possibly use this myself, though I'd need to see how it worked first.

[ownedbycats]

Request: An option to auto-collapse sections, or rearrange them. I have 150+ books in Want to Read.

[ownedbycats]

Small bug: I re-read a book from 2021. Now 2021 shows 312/313 books read. (The giant yellow number is because I left FRAPS running.)

Additionally, re-adding a book to an older goal (to update genres) while re-reading makes a new entry - in this case, 23%. It can't be deleted normally as it's the 'newest' entry. See book 2050 in the json database.

EDIT: The 312/313 didn't resolve if I json-edit to remove the phantom 23% entry and change the status back to 'Read.'

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Small bug: I re-read a book from 2021. Now 2021 shows 312/313 books read. (The giant yellow number is because I left FRAPS running.)

Additionally, re-adding a book to an older goal (to update genres) while re-reading makes a new entry - in this case, 23%. It can't be deleted normally as it's the 'newest' entry. See book 2050 in the json database.

EDIT: The 312/313 didn't resolve if I json-edit to remove the phantom 23% entry and change the status back to 'Read.'

If I understand this correctly, this is not a bug.

When you re-add a book, the plugin will read your columns and use those values to update the database (otherwise it wouldn't update the genres, which is your goal). Since the reading progress value is now 21%, it will be used. The plugin compares this with the existing value, and if they are different, a new entry is added.

So, you had 100% and now 21%. This is, by definition, rereading a book. Also, the book is not 100%, so it won't be counted as read, hence the 312/313 count.

Anyway, I changed the JSON for you. The current status is based on the last record, so it is used to populate the read pages, reading progress, shelf, etc.