[GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities

[DNSB]

I found I had to remove the Only if more recent checkmark before running Store booksmarks to fetch the time reading and estimated time left for one in progress book. I also removed the Not if finished in library checkmark and it made no difference. Sadly, I am now trying to create a template to translate a reading time of 7619 for example.

[Lys]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What you can do is filter by reading and go in and read at least one page of every book. Then you'll get their reading positions added to your library. You do not need the reading positions of books you've not yet read.

My KoboUtilities is set up to avoid making any changes to calibre if I already stored a book as "read", and I would rather avoid changing that behaviour just to get the "reading time" stat.

But since I can see that stat on the device, I wondered if there was a way to store that data too from the device to calibre, in the same way you can force a "store" of reading status/date/position from the device to calibre.

[Lys]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Sadly, I am now trying to create a template to translate a reading time of 7619 for example.

Probably there's a more elegant way, but it seems to work:

program:
      tot_seconds = $#readingtime;    
      hours = floor(tot_seconds/3600);
      minutes = floor((tot_seconds-hours*3600)/60);
      seconds = tot_seconds - hours*3600 - minutes*60;

def to_plural(v, str):
              if v == 0 then return '' fi;
             return v & ' ' & str & ' '
      fed;
      to_plural(hours, 'hr') & to_plural(minutes, 'min') & to_plural(seconds, 'sec')

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Lys

Probably there's a more elegant way, but it seems to work:

Pretty much what I ended up with on my first pass with hours/minutes/seconds. My second pass used hours with a fractional part. So my 7619 seconds comes up as 2.12 hours instead of 2 hours, 6 minutes and 59 seconds.

[Majutsushi]

Originally Posted by Lys

Yep, I tried, but no data was retrieved from my Kobo.
I also changed the last reading time stored on Calibre to run the store of the data for books whose data on Calibre is earlier than the one on the device, and the data got updated correctly for the "old" columns, while reading time column remained empty

I'll have a look at that, I thought I had set things up so that all of the columns behave the same.

[Lys]

Originally Posted by Majutsushi

I'll have a look at that, I thought I had set things up so that all of the columns behave the same.

I played a bit around with the current options, and the columns get updated if I flag the "run in background" when running the "store/restore" option

If I uncheck the flag, they don't get updated instead.


Edited to add: run in the background needs to be run with "only if more recent" unflagged, but doing so, it's not possible to store reading time without changing the other data already stored in calibre.

[matt123d]

Hi,

I am using Calibre-Web to sync my library to my Kobo Libra Colour. That all seems to be working well. But I am now trying to get read percentage, current location and last read to sync back to my Calibre database when pressing the sync button on my device. I have the columns setup in Calibre as can be seen in the attached screenshots. These columns successfully update when I connect my device directly to my computer. But these values are not being updated when pressing the sync button on my device. Is this something that is possible?

Thanks

[DNSB]

That would have to come from the developer of Calibre-Web.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by matt123d

Hi,

I am using Calibre-Web to sync my library to my Kobo Libra Colour. That all seems to be working well. But I am now trying to get read percentage, current location and last read to sync back to my Calibre database when pressing the sync button on my device. I have the columns setup in Calibre as can be seen in the attached screenshots. These columns successfully update when I connect my device directly to my computer. But these values are not being updated when pressing the sync button on my device. Is this something that is possible?

Thanks

You cannot store the reading positions wirelessly. You will have to connect via USB so Kobo Utilities can save your reading positions.

[Majutsushi]

Originally Posted by Lys

I played a bit around with the current options, and the columns get updated if I flag the "run in background" when running the "store/restore" option

If I uncheck the flag, they don't get updated instead.


Edited to add: run in the background needs to be run with "only if more recent" unflagged, but doing so, it's not possible to store reading time without changing the other data already stored in calibre.

Thanks for the investigation, it helped me track down another location where KU was updating reading locations that I had missed. I have now changed it so that storing the reading positions from that dialog should work correctly.

In the process I also realized that I wasn't handling the "restore bookmarks" feature, so running that doesn't restore the two new columns at the moment. I'm working on that, but since it updates the device database I want to make sure I don't corrupt the database in some way and so want to put some tests in place first.

[Lys]

Originally Posted by Majutsushi

Thanks for the investigation, it helped me track down another location where KU was updating reading locations that I had missed. I have now changed it so that storing the reading positions from that dialog should work correctly.

Thank you, Majutsushi

I can confirm that now storing the data for the two new columns works correctly on my side, and now you don't need anymore to flag the "Run in background" check-button

I haven't tested all Kobo Utilities functionalities, but for my user-case, I haven't noticed any issue/bug

[TomCanute]

I'm sorry if i missed discussion of the question i have to ask; 213 pages is an awful lot to scan for answers!

So a lot of what's said here is over my head. I added **Kobo Utilities** plugins several years ago to my **Kobo Glo HD**. It worked perfectly and it definitely improved my ebook experience and calibre. Specifically the #Complete function giving a percentage read column.

Recently I updated the firmware (?) of my Kobo. At least, for some reason I tried a factory reset and immediately regretted doing so. The process was a nightmare.

I have tried finding the version of the software running on the Kobo but cannot find it.

Anyway, my problem is, while the Reading Progress of books prior to the Kobo firmware update remains as it was, I have no Reading Progress of books read since updating the Kobo.

I updated Calibre to the latest version last night. It's now 7.3.0.

I see under menu *Device > Metadata on device & advanced* there's a checkbox for *Attempt to support newer hardware*. Is this something I should try?

I also see in *Kobo Utilities* plugin options an option to backup the device database. Is this a good idea?

Can anyone give me advice on what I might try to get this working again? Thanks.

[ownedbycats]

Since you did a factory reset, you may need to re-associate because it forgot your device assocation:



I can't think of all the words right now but i think this is where you do it.

[TomCanute]

I tried your suggestion but nothing changed. I tried adding custom column using #percentread (integer) as I saw you were using this in image you shared. I now have #complete and #precentread. Only books prior to firmware update show in #complete column. Other column is blank.

[ownedbycats]

No, look at the part where my cursor is. Device this profile is for. I think you need to change that.