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wold5 / calibre-pocketbook-tools

A Calibre UI plugin that offers a collection of tools for PocketBook e-readers.
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is it possible to persist the readers 'book finished' status in calibre? #2

Closed reuschling closed 2 years ago

reuschling commented 2 years ago

I search for a possibility to persist the 'read' status of a book inside my pocketbook reader. Perfect would be also to set the 'read' status of a book inside calibre. Is this possible with this plugin? I'm not exactly sure - the screenshots say that a database from the reader is backuped. Is the read status inside? Do you know which database is used from pockedbook? Maybe SQLLite?

Thanks for answering newbie questions :)

wold5 commented 2 years ago

Hi, for setting just the 'completed' status on a device, you can try the "pocketbook collection manager", see: https://github.com/anareaty/PocketBook_Collection_Manager https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=334784 There's also the official PocketBook Cloud Sync service.

But no, this plug-in (pockettools) doesn't handle completed/progress reading states. It mainly allows a backup of the databases. The read state/progress data are stored in the "explorer-3.db", a SQLite3 file. "Calibre-annotations" has logic for (only) reading PB annotations (see my commits), but does nothing with read states AFAIK. As an aside, a GUI tool for restoring backups is in the works, but it's a separate program (not a plugin), like the collection manager.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.