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[chaley]

Originally Posted by capink

You made the template language flexible enough to display rating (I shouldn't be telling you that )

program:
    rating = $rating;
    text = '';
    for x in range(0,rating):
        text = text & '★'
    rof

The line highlighted in blue should be edited to fetch rating from the appropriate column

Just for fun, the following template does it too.

program:
	if $rating then substr('★★★★★', 0, $rating) fi

[capink]

Originally Posted by chaley

Just for fun, the following template does it too.

program:
	if $rating then substr('★★★★★', 0, $rating) fi

Nice . I need to refresh my knowledge of template functions.

[Sprout7175]

Calibre Plugin idea:

A plugin that compiles the genre tags of all ebooks in a current library to give a bird's eye overview of what genre I tend to read/own in that library. This is a way to replicate the statistics and charts that websites like storygraph and fable give but on a local level. GCstar did this but with limited success as you couldn't narrow down which tags to be included within the statistics. I've started cataloging all books I read as empty entries in a new library with metadata,cover images and genre tags so being able to summarize my reading habits with a plugin like this would allow me to have the full experience of a website like storygraph without giving away my information.

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by Sprout7175

Calibre Plugin idea:

A plugin that compiles the genre tags of all ebooks in a current library to give a bird's eye overview of what genre I tend to read/own in that library. This is a way to replicate the statistics and charts that websites like storygraph and fable give but on a local level. GCstar did this but with limited success as you couldn't narrow down which tags to be included within the statistics. I've started cataloging all books I read as empty entries in a new library with metadata,cover images and genre tags so being able to summarize my reading habits with a plugin like this would allow me to have the full experience of a website like storygraph without giving away my information.

Have you tried the Reading Goal plugin?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=355769

[Sprout7175]

I haven't, I saw the title in the first page and assumed it was only for cataloging current reads. I didn't know you could group past read books by genre. I'll look into thanks for pointing it out

[Sprout7175]

So I've installed the reading goal plugin and it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I can't get it to work without the mandatory columns for page #s, read date and status which aren't what I care to measure for. I only want to see a summary of the books I've read via genre via the tags each ebook has.

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by Sprout7175

So I've installed the reading goal plugin and it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I can't get it to work without the mandatory columns for page #s, read date and status which aren't what I care to measure for. I only want to see a summary of the books I've read via genre via the tags each ebook has.

The plugin was created with two main objectives in mind:

1) Create a goal with the books you want to read in the current year
2) Keep track of your readings, with numerical and graphic statistics (by year, by month, by day and by genre - or any other tag)

You will be able to keep those records over the years, and even compare them. So, it does what you want and a little more. But it does enforce the use of the pages, date and percentage columns, because those are necessary for the main objectives.

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by Sprout7175

So I've installed the reading goal plugin and it's not exactly what I'm looking for. I can't get it to work without the mandatory columns for page #s, read date and status which aren't what I care to measure for. I only want to see a summary of the books I've read via genre via the tags each ebook has.

look at the graphs,

[Sprout7175]

Yeah from what I gather browsing around, it seems like the reading list plugin is the only option that fits my needs for now. I bit the bullet and added the countpages plugin so I don't need to manually plug in the page numbers for each book. I got it to work aside from an error saying I need to verify my challenges dictionary but I'll take this issue to the reading list plugin thread. Thanks for the help

[ianr]

In the EPUB standard, one can define reference/"paper" page numbers. I'm glad I filed a feature request that got implemented by Goyal (tysm!) allowing one to see the numbers from the calibre reader. However, a lot of EPUBs mess up defining their page numbers—a simple regex fixes these by defining epub:type="pagebreak" for each, but what's annoying is generating the above-linked nav pagelist element from all the epub:type="pagebreak" elements in the content. Most readers (correctly) don't bother looking for page numbers to display if they're not defined by a nav pagelist element in nav.xhtml or somewhere.

So, that's what I'm requesting, a tool that generates a compliant nav pagelist from all the elements with loose epub:type="pagebreak" in an EPUB's content, then fills each item (see here) according to the element's title attribute, and stashes the generated list in nav.xhtml.

Sorry if that was incomprehensible—very few people seem to care about fixed EPUB page numbers except for me. They're indispensable for my ability to properly cite books I'm reading for research.