[nookLibrary] Display "progress bar", sort by percent read

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I wonder whether it would be possible to obtain the current page information 
presumably managed by B&Ns reader application to display some kind of progress 
indicator with books in nookLibrary.  This would show at a glance how far into 
a book I've read and would easily enable sorting by progress.

As other readers do this kind of thing, I imagine I wouldn't be the only one 
appreciating such a feature.  I'm also willing to contribute the code myself 
but need some pointers as to how to retrieve the required information (current 
page, number of pages).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mgoetze2...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2010 at 7:36

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This information is probably stored in one of the databases under 
/data/data/<app folder>. I originally thought it will be stored in the book 
itself to enable syncing across devices. but that doesn't seem to be the case. 
I'll try to spend some time over the weekend and let you know if I find 
anything.

If you have a gmail id, I can enable checkin & upload access to you. 

Thanks,
Hari 

Original comment by hari.swa...@gmail.com on 15 Jul 2010 at 2:07

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this data is stored in 
/data/data/com.bravo.ereader.activities/files folder. There is a file created 
here for each book opened. 

Looks like this is a java class written using some serialization logic.

I think the easiest way will be to open a book in reader,note down the page 
nbrs and current page and then examine the hex data in this to figure out which 
field has it. We can also do a diff between different versions of the same file 
and see which values changes. 

Otherwise, we will have to use baksmali and smali tools to get the machine code 
for these classes and write our own version to read this file data.

Original comment by hari.swa...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 1:17

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At least with minor increments (turning but a few pages, but enough to change 
the page number), only the string-type OEBPS read-point information at the end 
of the serialized data appears to change.  Trying this with an ePUB, the 
current XHTML file and position therein can be derived this way, but not the 
current position relative to the total document.

I have yet to investigate whether larger increments change any other data.

Original comment by mgoetze2...@gmail.com on 25 Jul 2010 at 2:28

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Original comment by mgoetze2...@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2010 at 1:05

• Changed title: [nookLibrary] Display "progress bar", sort by percent read
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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I have added the current page & total pages info in display now ( similar to 
the stock lib)

Original comment by hari.swa...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2010 at 10:19

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This doesn't seem to display anymore in the newest 0.1.7 version.

I've tried turning show progness on and off.

The stock document application does not have this issue.

Original comment by laur...@laurensbosscher.nl on 19 Aug 2011 at 2:41