02-17-2017, 07:49 AM | #1246 | |
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For owners of multiple devices, you can either use the last read timestamp and state to decide if you update the state. Or you define a profile for each device and store the reading status in different sets of columns for each device. And in the database, on the table "content", the column "ReadStatus" contains the reading status. 0 means unread, 1 is reading and 2 is finished. 3 is "Closed" but I don't think that is used in any recent firmware, and I never worked out exactly what it meant. |
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02-17-2017, 09:42 AM | #1247 | |
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02-19-2017, 05:40 PM | #1248 |
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I want to use the percentage column to build status read column (text), but I find it a little difficult to make a template function.
If percentage is 1-99 return "Read". If percentage is 100 return "Finished". Edit: I managed to make the function. Last edited by oren64; 02-20-2017 at 12:58 AM. |
02-23-2017, 08:43 PM | #1249 |
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@davidfor Would it be practical to have either the device driver or the plugin check to see if the user has columns defined for shelving, but has left metadata management at anything other than automatic, and alert them?
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03-04-2017, 06:18 AM | #1251 | |
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Other than that, it works as I said. The annotations/bookmarks/highlights are stored in the database for all formats. For PDF and epubs on the main memory of the device, the are also stored in a file. It has been like this all the time I have been using Kobo device and I haven't seen any recent changes. |
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03-04-2017, 12:20 PM | #1252 | |
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This kind of PDF annotation can be retrieved using the Kobo driver calibre like epub ? Without calibre I could be able to retrieve also the annotation as there are stored by Kobo also inside the epub or the pdf ? Using official metadata ? Like xmp ? |
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thanks but I don't understand the last part : "Only if the device copies the annotations from the book to the database. I haven't looked to see what happened. "
did I correctly understand previous messages when you said that kobo store annotation of epub and pdf in internal database of kobo AND inside the file itself ? if yes, I wonder if it is possible to do a copy paste of the epub or the pdf from the kobo to the pc and read the annotation using a windows pdf reader for instance. |
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Just about anything is possible. I'm not sure whether it is worth doing or not. It would be possible to add something to the driver configuration to display a message when the collection options get set to remind them to do it. But I don't think that adding something that when the driver is actually doing something to remind them is a good idea. But, I might highlight it in the debug log so that it is easier to find.
The utilities plugin could also do something, but when is the question. I can't think of a good way or time to do it. Do I run a job each time that checks? What I have considered is adding status/debug data function. This would be a dialog to display all the info about the device and be easy to export or copy to the clipboard to past into a thread like this. Including this would make sense. It's been in the back of my mind for a while, but I just haven't gotten around to it. |
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Thanks, so I did not corretly understand. annotation are stored in the database and also in a file. but not inside the corresponding pdf or epub file. thanks for the precision
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I did a try to backup in calibre some annotations stored in a pdf file and it fails. nothing was retrieved, no error message also. It works perfectly with epub.
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03-18-2017, 01:32 PM | #1260 |
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problems opening a catalog
moved to the appropriate thread (KoboTouchExtended)
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