[GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities

[maritimehippy]

Thank you DNSB! You are brilliant. That fixed the issue. All working now. I really appreciate your help on this one. It had me stumped.

Great work. Thank you.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DNSB

See my response to your virtually identical post in the Library Management subforum.

And please check the MobileRead Posting Guidelines item #3 about duplication.

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Originally Posted by maritimehippy

Thank you DNSB! You are brilliant. That fixed the issue. All working now. I really appreciate your help on this one. It had me stumped.

Great work. Thank you.

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And please raise issues about a plugin in the plugin's thread.

I merged your other thread into this one.

BR

[tspear]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

↑ ↑ ↑ ✔

And please raise issues about a plugin in the plugin's thread.

I merged your other thread into this one.

BR

I cannot find the other thread mentioned and it does not appear to have been merged into the thread here (I am facing the same issue). Unless I missed something (which is very possible).

Thanks,

Tim

[ownedbycats]

It was merged.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by tspear

I cannot find the other thread mentioned and it does not appear to have been merged into the thread here (I am facing the same issue). Unless I missed something (which is very possible).

Thanks,

Tim

See message #2787 to #2790 in this thread. #2787 and #2789 were posted in the other thread, #2788 and #2790 were posted in this thread. #2789 contains my suggested fix which was stated to have worked in #2791.

[tspear]

@davidfor,

It took a while, but I did figure out my issue. I read your directions, and using the debug logs figure out that the option "Store current bookmarks on connect" is required to load the reading status and location information. I must have skipped past that section a dozen times since I do not use bookmarks. Any chance you change the text of the option to state "Store current bookmarks/reading location on connect"?


Anyways, now when I sync, I have two issues.
First it looks like roughly 100 books have imported the reading status, and it should be closer to 200 that I have marked as finished. I am now on my second Kobo eReader, is it possible Kobo (and I think likely) that the reading status was lost when I switched eReaders?

Second, there are two books which show a new reading status each time I connect; and I did not even eject the eReader (just restarting Calibre). Here is the debug log from one of the two (I have the full log if desired):

DEBUG: 0.1 ----------- _store_bookmarks - top of loop -----------
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - Current book: Maverick Gambit - Marjorie King
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - contentIds='['20713488-3bf9-4649-a771-9b8c63b1b77e', 'file:///mnt/onboard/King, Marjorie/Maverick Gambit - Marjorie King.epub']'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - contentId='20713488-3bf9-4649-a771-9b8c63b1b77e'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - device_status='None'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - result='{'ChapterIDBookmarked': '20713488-3bf9-4649-a771-9b8c63b1b77e!OEBPS!0_cover.xhtml#kobo.1.1', 'adobe_location': None, 'ReadStatus': 2, '___PercentRead': 95, 'Attribution': 'Marjorie King', 'DateLastRead': '2023-11-29T03:40:43Z', 'Title': 'Maverick Gambit', 'MimeType': 'application/x-kobo-epub+zip', 'Rating': None, 'ContentID': '20713488-3bf9-4649-a771-9b8c63b1b77e'}'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - device_status is None
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - contentId='file:///mnt/onboard/King, Marjorie/Maverick Gambit - Marjorie King.epub'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - device_status='{'ChapterIDBookmarked': '20713488-3bf9-4649-a771-9b8c63b1b77e!OEBPS!0_cover.xhtml#kobo.1.1', 'adobe_location': None, 'ReadStatus': 2, '___PercentRead': 95, 'Attribution': 'Marjorie King', 'DateLastRead': '2023-11-29T03:40:43Z', 'Title': 'Maverick Gambit', 'MimeType': 'application/x-kobo-epub+zip', 'Rating': None, 'ContentID': '20713488-3bf9-4649-a771-9b8c63b1b77e'}'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - result='{'ChapterIDBookmarked': None, 'adobe_location': None, 'ReadStatus': 0, '___PercentRead': 0, 'Attribution': 'Marjorie King', 'DateLastRead': None, 'Title': 'Maverick Gambit', 'MimeType': 'application/epub+zip', 'Rating': None, 'ContentID': 'file:///mnt/onboard/King, Marjorie/Maverick Gambit - Marjorie King.epub'}'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - finished reading database for book - device_status= {'ChapterIDBookmarked': '20713488-3bf9-4649-a771-9b8c63b1b77e!OEBPS!0_cover.xhtml#kobo.1.1', 'adobe_location': None, 'ReadStatus': 2, '___PercentRead': 95, 'Attribution': 'Marjorie King', 'DateLastRead': '2023-11-29T03:40:43Z', 'Title': 'Maverick Gambit', 'MimeType': 'application/x-kobo-epub+zip', 'Rating': None, 'ContentID': '20713488-3bf9-4649-a771-9b8c63b1b77e'}
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - Start of checks for current_last_read - reading_position_changed='False'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - current_last_read='2023-11-29 03:40:43+00:00'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - new_last_read ='2023-11-29 03:40:43+00:00'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - current_last_read != new_last_read='False'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - After checking current_last_read - reading_position_changed='False'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - current_percentRead ='100'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - new_kobo_percentRead='100'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - current_percentRead != new_kobo_percentRead='False'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - After checking percent read - reading_position_changed= False
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - current_chapterid ='20713488-3bf9-4649-a771-9b8c63b1b77e!OEBPS!0_cover.xhtml#kobo.1.1'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - new_chapterid='20713488-3bf9-4649-a771-9b8c63b1b77e!OEBPS!0_cover.xhtml#kobo.1.1'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - current_chapterid != new_chapterid='False'
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - After checking location - reading_position_changed= False
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - current_rating=8, new_kobo_rating=0
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - current_rating != new_kobo_rating= True
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - current_rating != new_kobo_rating and not (current_rating is None and new_kobo_rating == 0)= True
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - current_rating != new_kobo_rating and new_kobo_rating > 0= False
DEBUG: 0.1 _store_bookmarks - position changed for: Maverick Gambit - Marjorie King

[tspear]

Originally Posted by DNSB

See message #2787 to #2790 in this thread. #2787 and #2789 were posted in the other thread, #2788 and #2790 were posted in this thread. #2789 contains my suggested fix which was stated to have worked in #2791.

Thank you, I totally missed and did not follow. Anyways, using the debug log I actually figured out I had a separate cause (user error).

Thanks,

Tim

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by tspear

@davidfor,

It took a while, but I did figure out my issue. I read your directions, and using the debug logs figure out that the option "Store current bookmarks on connect" is required to load the reading status and location information. I must have skipped past that section a dozen times since I do not use bookmarks. Any chance you change the text of the option to state "Store current bookmarks/reading location on connect"?

Unfortunately, davidfor passed away last year. I'll take a look at the plugin later as it should be a simple change.

[tspear]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Unfortunately, davidfor passed away last year. I'll take a look at the plugin later as it should be a simple change.

Did not know that, sad to hear. The plugin is very handy.
Is there a new maintainer for the plugin?

Tim

[ownedbycats]

Not officially. Community members contribute patches, and chaley moves it to the first post.

[ownedbycats]

Beta Version 2.16.12

As requested by @tspear, this changes one string in config.py to "Store current bookmarks/reading position on connect."

[tspear]

Thanks, for the tweak.

Glad the community came together. Any ideas on two books repeatedly showing as updates although nothing changed?


Tim

[ownedbycats]

I've had that happen before. Going onto the Kobo, searching for them, manually marking as unread fixes that.

Originally Posted by tspear

I am now on my second Kobo eReader, is it possible Kobo (and I think likely) that the reading status was lost when I switched eReaders?

It's likely that your previous reader failed to sync the status to the Kobo servers. There's an issue several of us have been tracking in the Kobo forum about collections causing sync failure, though I'm not sure if that's a factor in your case.

[fogice]

Originally Posted by tspear

First it looks like roughly 100 books have imported the reading status, and it should be closer to 200 that I have marked as finished. I am now on my second Kobo eReader, is it possible Kobo (and I think likely) that the reading status was lost when I switched eReaders?

If that data is lost (and I believe that it is), you can manually set the status for those books to 100% read in Calibre, then push those new bookmarks to your Kobo with this plugin.

[tspear]

Originally Posted by fogice

If that data is lost (and I believe that it is), you can manually set the status for those books to 100% read in Calibre, then push those new bookmarks to your Kobo with this plugin.

That is my backup plan. I was hoping for a way to investigate the raw data some on the eReder itself. Otherwise, just a tedious job to track them down and change the status.

Tim