Is there a way to populate Favorites with all books on device?

[Ebookus]

but then it would cease to be history at all then. it would just be all books.

[fer1803]

Originally Posted by Ebookus

but then it would cease to be history at all then. it would just be all books.

To see the history of the finished ones, it would be as easy as filtering by reading, finished or on hold

[JimmXinu]

Minor necromancy because googling for a similar intent (see all books at once in KOReader ) lead me here, and there is an official answer now starting with KOReader 2025.04 "Full Moon" using KOReader Collections:

KOReader Collections can be populated MANUALLY from inside the collection's list from the 'hamburger' menu, choosing "Add all books from a folder and its subfolders"
Collections: add books from a folder koreader/koreader#12892

KOReader Collections can be populated AUTOMATICALLY from the list of collections, by long pressing the collection name and choosing "Connect Folders" then "Include subfolders"
Collections: connect folders koreader/koreader#13336

Note that in my experience with a large number of books in the directories (6700), ordering the collection by title or author took super long. 20-30 minutes long.

So I'm not sure how usable a solution this is.

[birdbear]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Minor necromancy because googling for a similar intent (see all books at once in KOReader ) lead me here, and there is an official answer now starting with KOReader 2025.04 "Full Moon" using KOReader Collections:

KOReader Collections can be populated MANUALLY from inside the collection's list from the 'hamburger' menu, choosing "Add all books from a folder and its subfolders"
Collections: add books from a folder koreader/koreader#12892

KOReader Collections can be populated AUTOMATICALLY from the list of collections, by long pressing the collection name and choosing "Connect Folders" then "Include subfolders"
Collections: connect folders koreader/koreader#13336

Note that in my experience with a large number of books in the directories (6700), ordering the collection by title or author took super long. 20-30 minutes long.

So I'm not sure how usable a solution this is.

JimmXinu, that is great, thank you for posting this. I wasn't aware that the latest update to KOReader has that feature!

I updated to 2025.04 tonight, and with just 160 books or so on my device, the collection populated pretty much instantly.

Anyone who finds their way to this thread should definitely use the method you describe here rather than that script I posted a while back.

Thanks again!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by birdbear

Anyone who finds their way to this thread should definitely use the method you describe here rather than that script I posted a while back.

FYI, I also posted about this in another thread and there was additional discussion. TL;DR, Connected Collections work better than I thought if you cache all the metadata first: KOReader Books or Collections View?

[jlinear]

I also find that my filtered epub Collection automatically collects newly added epubs. But I need to page through the collection for the actual covers to replace the temporary placeholder covers.

[birdbear]

I updated to nightly build (5/29 appears to be the latest: https://build.koreader.rocks/download/nightly/) to get the "filtering" feature in collections. On the stable release, files other than epub and pdf were being added to the collection with the ""Add all books from a folder and its subfolders" function (for example all the jpg cover images). Thank you huis07 for that commit (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/pull/13724)!