Keeping track of multiple (re)read dates?

[Mister L]

I would swear I saw a post about this but I cannot find it, my search-fu is broken today. Anybody can point me in the right direction?

I often re-read books and I would like to keep track of the dates of each re-read. I have a column which retrieves the percentage read from my Kobo (#kobopourcent) and another column which notes the last read date (#kobodernièrelecture).

I would like to add a column which, if the percent is 100, and then if the percent is 100 and the "last read" date has changed, copies the "last read" date to a new column ("re-read dates", or something) which can contain multiple dates, separated by a marker (; or ,). Each new date would be added to the end of the list of dates.

Is this possible? or, is there is a better way to do it?

[Karellen]

I don't have an automated way of tracking that myself.
I use a Last Read column which shows the last read date.
I also have a Comments blob where I manually transpose the dates once entered.

But I'll keep an eye out for other responses with better methods I could adopt.

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[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by Karellen

I don't have an automated way of [...]

I appreciate a lot your personal touch on metadata and covers. For some titles I'm trying to implement that as well, as opposed to automatic metadata retrieval.

[BetterRed]

I also recall some discussion in keeping a list of last read/viewed dates, might have been in the plugin ideas thread - not sure anything came of it.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by Mister L

Is this possible? or, is there is a better way to do it?

I'm sure it's possible but I sincerely hope @chaley won't send me such a question.

@ownedbycats might have something as well

[ownedbycats]

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4389646

'Mark as read' action chain. It copies the date to a custom taglike column.

[Wiggo]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4389646

'Mark as read' action chain. It copies the date to a custom taglike column.

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Yep, I took that from you - works very well

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4389646

'Mark as read' action chain. It copies the date to a custom taglike column.

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I hadn't used it but I think it will be a better option from now on than my option (another library with multiple copies of the book)

[Mister L]

Thanks everybody for the replies.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4389646

'Mark as read' action chain. It copies the date to a custom taglike column.

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This looks really useful, thank you! I don't know what to do with it though. I've made the new columns needed but I don't know where to put the code.

[ownedbycats]

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=334974

then import -> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...47#post4264247

[Mister L]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=334974

then import -> https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...47#post4264247

Thank you I was on the right track yesterday, I had installed the Action Chains plugin, but I somehow managed to click everywhere except the right place to import the code.

It is installed now but I get an error on the last action, it says "Action (Refresh View) is not currently available", do I need to add something else?

[ownedbycats]

Just open the chain and remove the last action, I forgot to remove it.

[Mister L]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Just open the chain and remove the last action, I forgot to remove it.

Brilliant, thank you again.

I think I have managed to modify this chain to use the dates from my kobo which the Kobo Utilities plugin copies over. I'm adding it here in case anyone is interested; you might need to change the column name "#kobodernierelecture" to match yours and also I formatted the dates as yyyy MM dd.

Here is what mine does (I couldn't figure out how to make a strike-through so I put the deleted steps in grey):

1. Sets #lastread (datetime) to current datetime. (duplicate: the Kobo plugin copies this time automatically from the Kobo, into the #kobodernierelecture column)
2. Sets #percentread (integer) to 100. (duplicate: automatically copied by Kobo plugin)
3. Increments #timesread (integer) by one.
4. Prompts to set rating (rating).
5. Copies the date from #kobodernierelecture to #readdates (taglike) as 'yyyy MM dd' - (2024 01 16). Changing the format should be simple if you prefer something else.

Thank you again Ownedbycats, unfortunately I can't give you more karma yet but this is really helpful and now I have learned how to use an Action chain as well.

[ownedbycats]

Also:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...postcount=1019

[Mister L]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Also:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...postcount=1019

That's so clever, how did you make the column exactly? My read dates column shows in the tag browser but each individual date is one entry, and I created a new "column built from other columns, behaves like tags" with your template and sort/search column by "Date" but it lists all the months on the same level (not grouped by year, then months on the next level as yours shows).