How to make KUAL first in the listing?

[Pinarius]

Is there any way for KUAL to be at the top of the list? When opening other ebooks it leaves the home screen. Is there a way to make it stay on the home screen?

[j.p.s]

Whenever you open KUAL it goes to the top, so just open it before it leaves the screen.

[cearp]

I haven't looked into how the kindle keeps a record of the most recently accessed books. BUT theoretically, if the 'most recent' list is done by checking a timestamp for each book in a database, we could set the time last accessed value of KUAL to something far in the future (like the year 3000).
This may be a trick to getting KUAL to always show first - just an idea.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by cearp

I haven't looked into how the kindle keeps a record of the most recently accessed books. BUT theoretically, if the 'most recent' list is done by checking a timestamp for each book in a database, we could set the time last accessed value of KUAL to something far in the future (like the year 3000).
This may be a trick to getting KUAL to always show first - just an idea.

Kindles keep track of book acces time in the sqlite database /var/local/cc.db

The initial timestamp on the file is used for the first setting.

setting an initial timestamp or an access time into the future is a good way to make a book not show up at all. This can also happen when the kindle clock time is very worng.

[NiLuJe]

The timestamp of a booklet being way off can indeed lead to an application startup failure .

[cearp]

Thanks j.p.s - I see it now.
cc.db, table 'Entries', the 'p_lastAccess' column.
Although per both of your posts above, I shall not try out my idea!
Even if it didn't cause issues, it would only be temporary, timestamp would get updated on each launch of course.

What is cool though, is being able to set a cover for KUAL.
Just set 'p_thumbnail' for the KUAL row to something (I was lazy and just copied the path of a different book's thumbnail) - and that worked great.
Do we have any cover image for KUAL that we can use for this?

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by cearp

Thanks j.p.s - I see it now.
cc.db, table 'Entries', the 'p_lastAccess' column.
Although per both of your posts above, I shall not try out my idea!
Even if it didn't cause issues, it would only be temporary, timestamp would get updated on each launch of course.

What is cool though, is being able to set a cover for KUAL.
Just set 'p_thumbnail' for the KUAL row to something (I was lazy and just copied the path of a different book's thumbnail) - and that worked great.
Do we have any cover image for KUAL that we can use for this?

twobob's avatar might be a good candidate.

It would likely need to be resized.

[shamanNS]

Or the image used for non-booklet version of KUAL?

[cearp]

Originally Posted by shamanNS

Or the image used for non-booklet version of KUAL?

Perfect - I haven't seen that for ages, thank you!

[shamanNS]

I had to find it in KUAL's source code repository

[Gaqs]

Originally Posted by cearp

Thanks j.p.s - I see it now.
cc.db, table 'Entries', the 'p_lastAccess' column.
Although per both of your posts above, I shall not try out my idea!
Even if it didn't cause issues, it would only be temporary, timestamp would get updated on each launch of course.

What is cool though, is being able to set a cover for KUAL.
Just set 'p_thumbnail' for the KUAL row to something (I was lazy and just copied the path of a different book's thumbnail) - and that worked great.
Do we have any cover image for KUAL that we can use for this?

Could you please go over on how to do that for a noob? I don't think I can access /var/local/cc.db from usb on my computer.

[aguy]

Originally Posted by cearp

Thanks j.p.s - I see it now.
cc.db, table 'Entries', the 'p_lastAccess' column.
Although per both of your posts above, I shall not try out my idea!
Even if it didn't cause issues, it would only be temporary, timestamp would get updated on each launch of course.

What is cool though, is being able to set a cover for KUAL.
Just set 'p_thumbnail' for the KUAL row to something (I was lazy and just copied the path of a different book's thumbnail) - and that worked great.
Do we have any cover image for KUAL that we can use for this?

I think the cover is in the azw2 file

[cearp]

Originally Posted by Gaqs

Could you please go over on how to do that for a noob? I don't think I can access /var/local/cc.db from usb on my computer.

I made a tiny extension to do it for you:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...13&postcount=3

[Gaqs]

Originally Posted by cearp

I made a tiny extension to do it for you:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...13&postcount=3

Just saw that, thanks.

I was going to try to do it myself using kterm and vim but this is way better.

[EndlessEggroll]

Originally Posted by cearp

I made a tiny extension to do it for you:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...13&postcount=3

Thanks for the script, cearp!

I applied it on my KOA3 and it doesn't seem to work though... Do you have any idea why that could be?

I checked in cc.db and the change has been made but somehow the thumbnail still doesn't appear in the library.