Recently added date and calibre sync

pdurrant · 04-14-2026, 03:32 PM

JustRead.app has the concept of "recently added". But when syncing from calibre, it doesn't seem to read/use the date stored in calibre (the default 'Date' column). It would be great if it could. (My dates in calibre go back to 2002!)

petrjahoda · 04-15-2026, 01:37 AM

Hi pdurrant, it is by date added to justRead, no matter what type of action you use to add a book to justRead.app.
It is no problem to change this, but wouldn't it be confusing for users, when you add a new book into justread.app today and it will be shown as added, let's say, 2 months back?

pdurrant · 04-15-2026, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by petrjahoda

Hi pdurrant, it is by date added to justRead, no matter what type of action you use to add a book to justRead.app.
It is no problem to change this, but wouldn't it be confusing for users, when you add a new book into justread.app today and it will be shown as added, let's say, 2 months back?

This would only be for books synced from calibre. Since I intend syncing all my books, it wouldn't be confusing at all for me. What's confusing for me is not being able to sort by the date I got the book.

I suppose it depends on where you think the 'master' copy of your library resides. For me, that's calibre. justRead.app is a great way for me to read books in my calibre library on my iPhone. I'd like to see as much synchronisation of metadata as possible.

Unfortunately, calibre doesn't have standard columns for whether a book's been read, nor for when it was last finished. justRead.app obviously does store that data. I would be willing to change my calibre database to use columns of justRead.app's choosing to be able to sync that data with calibre as well. (I do currently have "Read" and "Finished" columns in calibre, which are currently ignore by justRead.app)

[EDIT: I see that calibre sync mapping is on the roadmap!]

petrjahoda · 04-15-2026, 03:11 AM

OK, that makes sense, so for calibre sync only... added date will be the Date column from Calibre.

petrjahoda · 04-15-2026, 04:39 AM

OK, so this is done and tested and will be in 2.2

04-14-2026, 03:32 PM	#1
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 75,618 Karma: 320245570 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	Recently added date and calibre sync JustRead.app has the concept of "recently added". But when syncing from calibre, it doesn't seem to read/use the date stored in calibre (the default 'Date' column). It would be great if it could. (My dates in calibre go back to 2002!)

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04-15-2026, 01:37 AM	#2
petrjahoda Addict Posts: 381 Karma: 567890 Join Date: Dec 2025 Location: Czech Republic Device: iphone, ipad	Hi pdurrant, it is by date added to justRead, no matter what type of action you use to add a book to justRead.app. It is no problem to change this, but wouldn't it be confusing for users, when you add a new book into justread.app today and it will be shown as added, let's say, 2 months back?

04-15-2026, 03:11 AM	#4
petrjahoda Addict Posts: 381 Karma: 567890 Join Date: Dec 2025 Location: Czech Republic Device: iphone, ipad	OK, that makes sense, so for calibre sync only... added date will be the Date column from Calibre.

04-15-2026, 04:39 AM	#5
petrjahoda Addict Posts: 381 Karma: 567890 Join Date: Dec 2025 Location: Czech Republic Device: iphone, ipad	OK, so this is done and tested and will be in 2.2