About the stats presentation

[Erlend]

Answer to plain-cover from the soon-to-be-closed Calibre Companion subforum:

Originally Posted by plain-cover

This is very cool! I'm definitely your target audience - I love reading stats and I'm not super happy with my current Calibre sync setup.

Thanks, that's great to hear! Nobody else has said anything about the stats so far, so I was starting to fear that I'm the only one who cares about that.

Originally Posted by plain-cover

the titles over each chart don't line up, and the columns don't align from book to book. Having a row where 69% is a full bar scaled right next to a 102K word count doesn't really make sense since they are completely different metrics.

The "titles" over each chart is actually separate from the chart. I do realize that's not clearly enough communicated, and will try to make it clearer in one of the next updates. My main problem is that I want them as "clean" as possible to make the stats presentation nice to look at, so I removed the chart axis labels. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea. Or maybe it needs to be a setting.

Here's an explanation:


Perhaps I need to add axis labels? And some kind of separation between the "at-a-glance" stats and chart. All suggestions are very welcome here! Including suggestions for more stats and more types of presentation!

Originally Posted by plain-cover

And the stats in the gray boxes are hard to understand at a glance (for example, using spaces instead of commas like "1 726h time read" and what is "6,0 meters"? Of what?).

Spaces instead of commas: that's due to the Norwegian locale on my phone! On yours it would use commas (at least in theory -- would be great to have that confirmed!). It's supposed to type out all numbers using the system language settings.

Hard to understand at a glance: Yep, I can see that. It's supposed to be "at a glance". But in the app, you can tap them to get more info! For example, if you tapped the "6 meters" one, you'd get a popup telling you:

"In total, your reading corresponds to 6.25 meters of paperback books stacked on top of each other."

(And if you want the exact details, it's based on a random subset of books I had in physical as well as digital format. I measured the widths of the books and looked up their word count, and calculated "words per cm". This is then used to calculate the height of the stack based on the total word count in your stats.)