[GUI Plugin] Reading Goal

[ownedbycats]

I am not seeing a % in the Edit Records dialog

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I am not seeing a % in the Edit Records dialog

You should see something like this:



If you're not, try erasing this key from the JSON config file (not the database):

['state']['EditRecordsDialog'][...]

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Edit: Close calibre before editing the JSON. After saving, start calibre.

[ownedbycats]

That fixed it. Did the progress somehow resized to nothing?

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

That fixed it. Did the progress somehow resized to nothing?

It was probably hidden.

I've elimited a hidden column at some point in the first versions. I'm not sure, but it's possible Qt stores the geometry based on the column index, which would cause the mismatch when the progress column took the index of the eliminated hidden column.

I'll add a geometry reset in the code to automatically deal with it for others that might have the same problem.

[Feoras]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

Bug fix: when adding a record for a different year, the plugin still locked the date to the current year

Seems to be working now, thank you so much!

Just out of interest I took a look into the "edit book records" feature.
The only issue I found there is, if you edit a book entry, the progress % changes. My progress is in float with 2 decimals points. E.g. it is "34.03 %". Clicking edit, I now only can edit up to one decimal after the dot - so it is automatically changed from 34.03 to 34.0. Based on the books total page count, this loss of one decimal can actual be the difference of 1-2 pages.
Is it intentional that you can only enter one decimal instead of two?

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by Feoras

Seems to be working now, thank you so much!

Just out of interest I took a look into the "edit book records" feature.
The only issue I found there is, if you edit a book entry, the progress % changes. My progress is in float with 2 decimals points. E.g. it is "34.03 %". Clicking edit, I now only can edit up to one decimal after the dot - so it is automatically changed from 34.03 to 34.0. Based on the books total page count, this loss of one decimal can actual be the difference of 1-2 pages.
Is it intentional that you can only enter one decimal instead of two?

I'll change the precision to 2 digits.

[ownedbycats]

Will this affect my action chain? Calculates #percentread from this, often makes 34.58324424%.

program:
	if 
		globals(currentPage)==''
	then
		$#percentread
	else
		totalpage = $#pagecount;
		currentpage = globals(currentPage=1);
		newpercent = multiply ((currentpage / totalpage), 100)
	fi

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Will this affect my action chain? Calculates #percentread from this, often makes 34.58324424%.

Not at all. 34.58324424% will be rounded to 34.58%, which makes no difference even on a 10,000 pages book (the difference would be 0.3 pages).

[thiago.eec]

Version 2.0.0 - 24 Sep 2025

- New feature: Records editor
- New config option: choose between displaying the read pages or read books in the statistics window (the other info will be displayed when hovering the month bars).

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

Version 2.0.0 - 24 Sep 2025

- New feature: Records editor
- New config option: choose between displaying the read pages or read books in the statistics window (the other info will be displayed when hovering the month bars).

[Feoras]

Thank you again!


It pains me to do one more feature request.
I would like the option to have bars instead of the graph for the daily display as well.
It probably was quite the effort to put the graph in, but the issue with the graph, in my opinion, is how days close to each other are not really well distinguishable.

E.g. on day 19 I read 100 pages, on day 20 I read 50 pages. Day 21 then 0 pages. For the graph, this one one straight line where you can easily miss the read pages on day 20. With bars, this is visible out of the box.
I hacked the get_month_html function to display a specific month for the attached demo screenshots.
I took some sample screenshots with the described example: day 19 100 pages and day 20 50 pages, or only day 19 100 pages - for both graph and bar.

This is how the function looks for testing:

            def get_month_html(self, _data: dict[str, dict]) -> str:
                # Bar model
                daily_bar = v_bar

                daily_page_count = self.daily_page_count()

                # Get a bar for each day
                bars = []
                for i in daily_page_count["sep"]:
                    bar = daily_bar.format(str(daily_page_count["sep"][i]), daily_page_count["sep"][i], i, "")
                    bars.append(bar)
                bars_string = ''.join(str(b) for b in bars)

                # Insert the bars in the html file
                daily_html = v_html.replace('<!-- Placeholder -->', bars_string)

                # Format html
                bar_color, text_color, background_color = self.get_colors()
                daily_html = daily_html.format(text_color, bar_color, background_color, _('SEP READINGS'))
                return daily_html

Ideally there could also be another config setting like "Use bar graph for daily display" which will then switch between the two implementations inside the "daily_pages" function.

Thank your for your time you put into this project so far!

[thiago.eec]

Hi, @Feoras.

The config option is definitely needed.

I like to keep my statistcs window as narrow as possible (that's just my preference, but others might like it too). The daily graph adapts well for the screen width, while each bar need some fixed space, so for 30 bars, we need a lot more space then for 12 (months).

But I'll look into it.

[mgiuntoni]

HI, I'm seeing the following issue. I' hope it's not in the previous 62 pages.
I have added several read books from year 2025 and 2024 and 2022.
If I select 2025 I see all of them
If I select 2024 I see both 2024 and 2025. Is this correct?
If I select 2022 I see only 2022 books.
Should I restart from scratch? I've tried to remove a book from 2025 and it disappeared in both lists (2025 and 2024) but when I added it again it appeared again in both.
I also see the Want to Read list of 2025 when I select 2024
Please help!

[thiago.eec]

Hi.

Can you please PM your plugin database (it's a JSON file; you can export it from the 'Edit reading goal' dialog)? I'll check if I can identifiy the problem. No one ever complaint about something like that before.

Also, please select the books in your goal and choose 'Mark selected books', then close it and take a screenshot of your calibre library main window (I hope the related columns are visible in the screenshot). This will give more info to investigate.

[mgiuntoni]

@tiago.eec
I sent you PM for the db. Here is the screen shot you requested