bookmarks

[gianni_1]

Hi,
do you think it is possible to insert some bookmark to indicate the last book read? Something simple, like changing the color of the line or book title?
Thanks.

[theducks]

I simply log the date(-time) I finish in a custom column. ({#finished})
Calibre biases sorts by the previous 'N' sorts (I set to down 3 in tweaks ages ago)
So sort first by {#finished}, then your other sort.

Ant other way would be a lot trickier, requiring removing the previous marker then applying the current one

[arpeggioaccele]

I literally just write the title of the book in an obsidian markdown file lmao

I really would like a plugin that logs all books read using the calibre viewer though, maybe I'll write one if there's not one availible

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by arpeggioaccele

I literally just write the title of the book in an obsidian markdown file lmao

I really would like a plugin that logs all books read using the calibre viewer though, maybe I'll write one if there's not one availible

There's a list in the viewer-webengine.json file in the calibre configuration directory, look for "standalone_recently_opened", topmost is last read. You can see the list via the viewer's Open option.

I don't know of anything that exposes the list within the library manager. The list will potentially contain entries from multiple libraries, a plugin that displays the list could/should filter the list to only show books in current library.

BR

[Comfy.n]

FWIW, the built-in Annotations browser displays the last highlights and bookmarks added for titles in the current library. As I use this often, i've placed the correspondent button on my main toolbar.

It would be nice to have something like a page marker in the viewer, which could actually populate a custom reading progress column, but that doesn't seem feasible.

The Viewer and the FTS feature seem to work quite isolatedly from main Calibre, so...

[capink]

Originally Posted by arpeggioaccele

I literally just write the title of the book in an obsidian markdown file lmao

I really would like a plugin that logs all books read using the calibre viewer though, maybe I'll write one if there's not one available

The Last Modified plugin has the ability to log timestamps to a custom date column whenever a format is opened by calibre editor. I remember getting a request for similar functionality for the calibre viewer. The problem was, unlike the with the editor, calibre does not trigger a db event when a format is opened by the viewer, so the only other option left for me was to monkeypatch calibre, something I am not a fan of.

As soon as I get some free time, I will submit a patch to Kovid to launch an event whenever a format is opened by the viewer, so that I can log it using the Last Modified plugin. And maybe also use it to add an Action Chains event. It should be straightforward and would not take more than a couple lines of code. But I want to look at other things first, like launching an event for Calibre's Open With functionality as well.

Not sure Kovid would accept these changes, but if he does, the Last Modified plugin can be modified to log the timestamps for book views as well. This way anyone can get a complete log by using calibre's Catalog functionality to export the data to excel sheet detailing the book titles and viewer timestamps.

[kovidgoyal]

right click the view button and you get a list of all recently viewed books.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by gianni_1

Hi,
do you think it is possible to insert some bookmark to indicate the last book read? Something simple, like changing the color of the line or book title?
Thanks.

On second thought, I'd guess what you want can be achieved with Job Spy Plugin, by creating a #last_viewed date column, and assigning a coloring rule (or an emblem rule, if using the cover grid) like this:

- Job Spy:


- Coloring rule:

[arpeggioaccele]

Wow those are all great ideas, I'll try them all out, thanks! (Especially Kovid)