01-05-2024, 08:11 PM | #1 |
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Reading Start Date
I need to know when I started reading a particular book. Obviously, I can list items by “date added” or by “recent”, and everything is arranged chronologically (I assume), but no dates are visible. When I select “View Details” from the drop-down menu, the only date I can find is the publication date under “details“ for books that I’ve purchased or borrowed through Kobo plus or Overdrive. Sideloaded books don’t show a date there at all (since that’s obviously in the meta data of books listed in the Kobo Store). Yet, there’s something internal that allows Kobo to list the books chronologically.
Before I aimlessly poke around the database, could somebody familiar with the database let me know where to look, or maybe the date that I started reading a book is available on my Kobo and I’m overlooking it? Thanks. |
01-07-2024, 08:10 AM | #2 |
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Judging by the lack of responses, I take it that there is no way to see in the UI when one has begun reading a book, as I suspected since I couldn’t find it anywhere.
I had hoped that this information existed in the database because “Activity” kept track of hours read on each book. Books can be listed with “recent” activity as well. Some chronological metadata is stored, but not the metadata I’m looking for, apparently. |
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The database might just have a last accessed date. Maybe a purchased date for ebooks direct from Kobo.
Ancient discussion here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=295768 I suspect there is no general "reading start date" or Kobo Utilities in Calibre would have it. You can have a custom Calibre column updated with Reading Progress, so if connecting to Calibre regularly it's theoretically possible to have a custom column that has it's date set the first time the reading progress changes from zero. I do see publication dates for some sideloaded ebooks on the Kobo. But that's no use to you anyway. Quote:
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01-07-2024, 09:13 AM | #4 |
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If you have the date in calibre, you could use Kobo Utilities to show it as a sub title on the Kobo reader.
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Thanks for the feedback! I’ll check out what you’ve mentioned just after I make my current deadline.
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{#subtitle} So the list view on 'My Books' can display Title, Author, Series, and Subtitle, but doesn't show which collections the book is in because there could any number of collections it's in, or none. I was missing the 'Template' data beside 'Subtitle', which is why it wasn't adding them to the Kobo. I sorted on Subtitle, selected all the ones with an entry and applied 'Update Device Library Metadata' in Kobo Utilities and after the eject process I could see the subtitles on any title with one. Last edited by Quoth; 01-11-2024 at 05:11 AM. |
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