[GUI Plugin] Reading Goal

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by mgiuntoni

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

Thanks. I'll take a look as soon as possible.

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by 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!

Hi, @mgiuntoni.

I looked at your database and it is really odd. I can't reproduce it here. Did you edited the JSON file manually? It's the only way I can imagine this.

I'm sorry to say, but my suggestion is for you to make a backup and start from scratch. Start from older years and make your way to 2025. Keep track of what happens all the time. If you identify exactly when the glitch happens, maybe we can find the bug, if it exists; then, tell me exact steps to create a record that appear in both years.

[ownedbycats]

Previous glitch, fixed now, that copied all the books from previous years into current year. Could that have occurred at some point?

[mgiuntoni]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

Hi, @mgiuntoni.

I looked at your database and it is really odd. I can't reproduce it here. Did you edited the JSON file manually? It's the only way I can imagine this.

I'm sorry to say, but my suggestion is for you to make a backup and start from scratch. Start from older years and make your way to 2025. Keep track of what happens all the time. If you identify exactly when the glitch happens, maybe we can find the bug, if it exists; then, tell me exact steps to create a record that appear in both years.

Hi Thiago,

Thanks for the investigation. I really appreciate it.
I still don't understand how it happened. Maybe I was half asleep and did something strange.
As a final solution I will start from scratch, but maybe could it be a way to clean it up editing the JSON and importing it again? Do you think it's possible?

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Previous glitch, fixed now, that copied all the books from previous years into current year. Could that have occurred at some point?

Maybe. I don't remember the specifics.

Originally Posted by mgiuntoni

Hi Thiago,

Thanks for the investigation. I really appreciate it.
I still don't understand how it happened. Maybe I was half asleep and did something strange.
As a final solution I will start from scratch, but maybe could it be a way to clean it up editing the JSON and importing it again? Do you think it's possible?

You could edit the JSON, but you can also just select all the books from 2024/2025 and delete via plugin. Then, start adding again.

[mgiuntoni]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

You could edit the JSON, but you can also just select all the books from 2024/2025 and delete via plugin. Then, start adding again.

I cleared all and started again from scratch. Now everything works fine.
Not so much work, anyway.
Thanks a lot for all the support

[Feoras]

Originally Posted by 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.

Thank you! I would love to have the bars in there if you figure out a way to properly implement it.

[ownedbycats]

calibre, version 8.12.100
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>KeyError</b>:'jan'

calibre 8.12.100  embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.11.13
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.Reading_Goal.main", line 4039, in update_year
  File "calibre_plugins.Reading_Goal.main", line 4193, in get_month_html
KeyError: 'jan'

I get this when I go to different year in statistics, except 2020 (I started logging readdates in April).

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

calibre, version 8.12.100
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>KeyError</b>:'jan'

calibre 8.12.100  embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.11.13
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.Reading_Goal.main", line 4039, in update_year
  File "calibre_plugins.Reading_Goal.main", line 4193, in get_month_html
KeyError: 'jan'

I get this when I go to different year in statistics, except 2020 (I started logging readdates in April).

I thought this was solved during the test phase. This is caused by python chaging case in the 'calendar.month_abbr' method for certain languages. In english, it uses capital case, while in portuguese (my system's language) it uses lower case. I think this makes no sense, but who knows, there might be a reason for that.

Since past years are not updated, this might be what is causing the error.

Anyway, test the version attached. I made a quick fix.

[ownedbycats]

I get the same error, except with 'Jan'.

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I get the same error, except with 'Jan'.

Please PM me your database, so I can have a look.

[thiago.eec]

Version 2.0.1 - 16 Oct 2025

- Bug fix: Ensure month abbreviation is always used in lowercase

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

Version 2.0.1 - 16 Oct 2025

- Bug fix: Ensure month abbreviation is always used in lowercase

[un_pogaz]

Hey, I don't know if their a Github where I can proprely sudmit this, but here a version to fix a annoying behavior of Reading Goal.

Currently, each time you start Calibre, Reading Goal extrat all their assets. The issue is that it overwrite the previous files, every time, even if the file are identical (what happens pretty much all the time) unnecessarily updating the file at each startup.

In this patch version, Reading Goal check the file on the system and extracting and updating it only if their different.
(file changed: "ui.py")

[thiago.eec]

Thanks for the fix. I'll release it right now.