Touch how to manage books

[Smartie]

Hi

I had Kindle before. When I finished the reading. I just archive the book. Now, I just got a kobo touch as a gift. So I am wondering how to manage the books after reading. Same as kindle(archive) or some other good suggestions?

Thanks in advance

[PeterT]

Everything depends on what YOU want to achieve!

I stick to reading books in ePub format that I manage via calibre.

I use the Kobo Utilities plugin to store the reading percentage and status of all books on the Glo.

I have a series of automated column definitions in place in calibre.

One is based on the date a book was added to calibre and assigns the book to a shelf / collection name "monthadded" and will have the value "ZZ_Added_yyyy_MM". This allows me to easily see when books were added, and read some books based on how long I've had them.

Another column gets set when a book is finshed and has the value "Finished_yyyy". This makes it easy to see how many books were read in a given year.

Finally I have a custom search defined in calibre that looks for all books on the device that are finished and are not on my "Reference" shelf. This lets me then easily select those books and remove them from my device.

[Smartie]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Everything depends on what YOU want to achieve!

I stick to reading books in ePub format that I manage via calibre.

I use the Kobo Utilities plugin to store the reading percentage and status of all books on the Glo.

I have a series of automated column definitions in place in calibre.

One is based on the date a book was added to calibre and assigns the book to a shelf / collection name "monthadded" and will have the value "ZZ_Added_yyyy_MM". This allows me to easily see when books were added, and read some books based on how long I've had them.

Another column gets set when a book is finshed and has the value "Finished_yyyy". This makes it easy to see how many books were read in a given year.

Finally I have a custom search defined in calibre that looks for all books on the device that are finished and are not on my "Reference" shelf. This lets me then easily select those books and remove them from my device.

Thanks.

What I meant to know is that there is any way I can only show unread books in library? or put unread book on the top because I dont want to browse through read books to get unread one?

[robko]

Originally Posted by Smartie

Thanks.

What I meant to know is that there is any way I can only show unread books in library? or put unread book on the top because I dont want to browse through read books to get unread one?

In the library you can choose under "Show" an option for showing only unread books. That should get you in the direction of what you want.

EDIT: as David pointed out below, this option is only available on the newer devices, not the Touch.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Smartie

What I meant to know is that there is any way I can only show unread books in library? or put unread book on the top because I dont want to browse through read books to get unread one?

On the Touch, no. The Glo, Aura and Aura HD have a filter to choose between all, unread, reading and finished books. The Touch uses an older version of the library lists and doesn't have this.

You could calibre to create collections on the device for each of these states. Opening the "unread" collection would show you the unread books as at the last connection to calibre.

[Smartie]

Originally Posted by davidfor

On the Touch, no. The Glo, Aura and Aura HD have a filter to choose between all, unread, reading and finished books. The Touch uses an older version of the library lists and doesn't have this.

You could calibre to create collections on the device for each of these states. Opening the "unread" collection would show you the unread books as at the last connection to calibre.

Ok thanks

Sorry for this,but can I read in my touch on subway then sync my kobo glo at home and start to read leftover in my touch or vice visa?

[PeterT]

What format are the books being read? ePubs or kEpubs purchased from Kobo?

If kEpubs purchased from Kobo and synced via either Kobo Desktop or WiFi then yes, Kobo will sync reading positions.

If ePubs whether loaded via calibre or ADE, or just copying files yourself, then no; reading location is not synced. You could look at using Kobo Utilities to sync, but I'm not sure how easy it would be to automate.

[Smartie]

Ok. That is too bad. Kepub is only small proportion of my books in Kobo.

I have both Touch and Glo. My touch is very well functional. I got Glo as gift. So not sure how to use two Kobo. Guess sell one is the best option.

[anguila]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Everything depends on what YOU want to achieve!
*snip*
Another column gets set when a book is finshed and has the value "Finished_yyyy". This makes it easy to see how many books were read in a given year.

I'm sure that is a very simple trick for you but that shouts "BRILLIANT!" to me Great idea, I think I'm gonna try it too

[PeterT]

Well the columns I have defined are as follows:

Lookup Name: readstatus
Column Heading: Reading Status
Column Type: Column built from other columns
Template: {#koboreadpct:'cmp($, 100,cmp($, 0, '', '', 'Reading'), strcat('Finished_',format_date(field('#kobolastread'), 'yyyy')),'')'}
Sort/Search column: By Text
Show in tags browser: Checked

Lookup Name: koboreadloc
Column Heading: Kobo Reading Location
Column Type: Text, column shown in the tag browser

Lookup Name: koborating
Column Heading: Kobo Rating
Column Type: Integers

Lookup Name: koboreadpct
Column Heading: Kobo Read Percentage
Column Type: Integers

Lookup Name: kobolastread
Column Heading: Kobo Last Read Timestamp
Column Type: Date

Lookup name: monthadded
Column heading: Month Added
Column type: Column built from other columns
Template: {:'strcat('ZZ_Added_',format_date(field('date'), 'yyyy'),'_',format_date(field('date'), 'MM'))'}
Sort/Search column: By Text
Show in tags browser: Checked

then in the Device driver, the shelves are set to

#myshelves,  #readstatus, series, #monthadded, authors