[GUI Plugin] Reading Goal

[ownedbycats]

They already are user-definable. I was only suggesting #B4B4FF as a default.

[ownedbycats]

Possible bug: I think the change added in 1.6.7 (when deleting the last record, create a new updated one immediately, instead of waiting for the next interaction) got regressed. My steps to replicate:

1. Have a book with no read-date and a progress of 0.
2. Add a date to the last-read column and then open Edit Reading Goal.
3. Delete the empty-date 0% record.

Upon pressing apply, a new dated one should appear but it didn't until I closed and re-opened the dialog.

I found this bug after I had the 0% entries for my two most recently-started books go missing. The first time I thought it was some user error but then it happened again.

[thiago.eec]

. I'll fix it.

[thiago.eec]

Version 1.7.6 - 04 Nov 2024

- Fix a regression introduced in the last release that broke records management, preventing it to create a new updated record immediately, when the last record is deleted

[ownedbycats]

thank you!

[ownedbycats]

Question: What happens to 'pages' on existing entries if I change the page-count on a book? Had to recount the pages because I noticed my Count Pages settings were messed up.

EDIT: It seems the main book record gets changed (at least for the current year - updating previous years didn't seem to work) but the progress subrecords don't change.

So there's a few oddities such as 200 pages/day on a book that'd gotten recounted to 180 pages, but just a minor annoyance - I can always fix it via JSON if it starts bothers me too much.

[thiago.eec]

Back when the database was designed, some choices were made:

• The current year would be constantly updated to reflect the current status of your books.
• Past years (and abandoned books) are not updated, since this would slow down the plugin over the years, having more and more books to sync; not to mention rereadings, where the current date would not match past years.
• Read pages are stored as integers, not as a percentage of the total.

So, changing the page count only affects the main entry in the current year. Records are not updated because they reflect a moment in the past. The read pages in the current years' records could be update if they were saved as a percentage, but that's not the case (and changing it at this point would be too much work for litle gain, since past years are not updated anyway).

[ownedbycats]

Yeah, that makes sense. Considering the nature of eBooks, the 'pages' really only matter for my paper books anyways.