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Does Calibre Understand When A Book is Read?
I use Calibre with Calibre Companion on my iPad.
While CC understands that a book is "read" or "not read," it appears to me that it is not sending this information to Calibre when I connect and sync via the Wireless Server. In particular, I notice that when I remove books from CC after syncing, and then add them again, they again show up in CC as being unread, despite what I assume should have been adequate time for Calibre to import the "read" information from CC. I found a tutorial on creating a custom column for read/unread status. But when I did it, the books all showed up with blank entries -- Calibre did not understand that some of those books had been read. Is there a way to make this information available in the Columns in Calibre, and to ensure that Calibre is getting this information from CC? |
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1) You must Sync via the Wireless Device connection after setting the status in CC
2) You need to have configured CC (for the field type and name used). I use a date field. some use a Yes/no. they are different ![]() I am not sure if you are in a chicken - egg condition here The field is newer than the last sync. many of the Read status are even older. Sync is about whats Newer than the other |
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I am synching with wireless device connection after setting the status in CC, but evidently that's not enough. I'm not sure what you meant by #2. Can you elaborate on that and on the steps for doing that? From what I can see, within the settings menu, and under "wireless connection," there is an option for "wireless/device connection/Sync new...." that I have turned on (switch turned to the right). There is another set of options under "Marking Books Read." Here there are several options - please tell me if I have any of these configured incorrectly: "Update Date Read when read" - I have this turned off, because I mark the book read manually. Though even when I had it turned on, I had the same problem described above. "Sync only form calibre to CC" - I have this turned off, because I understood that turning it on would only sync read information from Calibre to CC and what I wanted was two-way synching of said information "Mark updates in calibre" - I have this turned off. Frankly I did not understand what this did. "Sync column for Read" I don't have any options to adjust here. It says "current value: lookup name for a calibre yes/no custom column that CC's Read indicator is to be synced with" There is an arrow to the right which has "Don't sync" checked. I can't seem to uncheck that. "Sync column for Date Read" Same as above, no option to change this. It again mentions a calibre date custom columnb that Date Read is to be synched with. Again the arrow to the right gets me an option that says "Don't sync" and that is checked. I can't uncheck it. |
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You need to have columns in calibre that Calibre Companion can sync to.
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These are Calibre Companion questions. I am moving the thread to the CC forum |
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Thanks!
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